Subscriber Keith Vogon wrote from Thailand Dear Terry. Whilst trying to find an answer via Google, I suddenly realized that I have a great Guru So here goes. I have been transferring my movies to a Western Digital Passport Hard Drive and suddenly realized I didn’t know how to connect it to my TV in [...]
Solving Jerky Streamed Videos
Subscriber Gordon Shaw wrote for help to solve a problem with jerky streamed video: Hi Terry Wonder if you could help. I have a PC with AMD Athlon tm 64 processor 3800+. 2.4GHz, ASUS M2V-MX Motherboard & 2GB Ram. The video card is a NVIDIA Ge Force7600Gs with 256MB of Video Memory. I’m running XP [...]
Upgrading to SageTV Media Center software v7
I just upgraded the home theater PC software on my home theater PC from SageTV Media Center version 6 to the latest version (v7) of SageTV. I’m amazed…
What Are Codecs?
This must have been the week for codec questions. I received a question about codecs from longtime subscriber Sam Boggs and saw a similar question in two mailing lists. Sam wrote: Hey Terry: Thanks again for your great newsletter. My question: I see "Codec Packages" — free downloads, but no clear explanation. Do I need [...]
Finding the Missing Digital Photos
Subscriber Jody Bell wrote with a challenging problem. Apparently she had not invested in an external hard drive for backing up her computer — and now has lost, or lost track of, all her digital photos when her computer had problems. In these days of digital cameras and storing our photos on our computers, rather [...]
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