Apple has updated their AppleTV software and I feel this makes it a far more viable product to have.

I have been down on the AppleTV because it wasn’t a true DVR.  It still isn’t, as it can’t record video, but at the time it was little more than a media extender.  I never found much use for media extenders, unless they could be had ultra cheap.  But the new software, dubbed Take Two, makes the AppleTV a much better product, full of more useful features.

I have been using my AppleTV for several months now, and I bought it shortly before …

I’ve been watching HBO’s John from Cincinnati show since it first aired a month or so ago, and I have to admit, after about 8 episodes/days (I’ve lost track) I still don’t know WTF is going on. Maybe I’m just not cut out for a show that presents itself as one big mystical, mysterious, philosophical cocktail. Just not my drink, perhaps.

Bring back the Sopranos. Where’s Deadwood? Maybe I should switch to those campy Bollywood musicals my parents love?

I’ve spoken to a few friends who have also been watching or have watched the JFC and they too exhibit the similar …

For those of you who saw my post on TV On The Go and then followed or participated in the comments, here’s the latest.

For years, I have been pulling recorded TV manually (because of a bug in DVArchive that doesn’t allow it to run reliably forever, at least on my PC) from my ReplayTV to a PC and then running a semi-complex series of scripts to convert the quasi-proprietary MPEG-2 streams to divx so that I can take the shows on the road on my Archos 504.

I decided to try a piece of software called iPodifier.  This is a nifty …

Who wants an AppleTV?  I sure don’t.  It just doesn’t do what I want it to.

All in all, the AppleTV is a good step in the direction of what we really need for true television nirvana.  I have always been of the mindset that personal computers are the perfect platforms to do what we want, how we want, where we want.  I’m speaking of recording TV, viewing movies and DVDs, listening to music, viewing photos, and playing games.  But unfortunately, there is one big thing standing in the way of this: ourselves.

What I mean by that is the idea that …

As a road warrior, I have struggled forever with finding the best method for getting my recorded TV programs to travel with me.  Here is the journey so far.

The number one solution has always been to throw money at the problem.  But I have tried desperately to avoid that solution.  In the end, it may be the way to go.  From what I can tell, it would be easy to get a Windows Media Center Edition PC (also called MCE, around $1,000 minimum for an MCE PC) and a compatible portable player ($200+).  But there are reasons not to go …

Okay, so I’ve been catching up on Lost.  I was about a full season or more behind but am now, thanks to an iTunes season pass, only about 4 or 5 weeks behind.  Is it just me, or is this entire show about “daddy issues?”

It seems that just about every one of the castaways from Oceanic Flight 815 are in the midst of serious daddy issues.  A few are the victims of maternal conflicts, but it just seems like an inordinate number of the characters are having serious problems with their fathers.  Let’s look at the list.

John Locke most of …

SPOILER ALERT: Review of Battlestar Galactica episode Crossroads (part 2).

I have to say a huge thank you to Lee Adama for finally observing that which I’ve been saying for a long time now.  Ever since they nabbed Baltar and wanted to kill him for consorting with the Cylons, I have been noting the full presidential pardon that Roslin gave to all “collaborators” and screaming, “doesn’t this apply to Baltar too?”

I think it was pretty obvious that Baltar wasn’t going to be airlocked.  He’s too popular a character and if he’d died then Ron Moore and David Eick would have been …

Spolier alert: Review of Battlestar Galactica episode “Maelstrom.”

Okay, so let me get this straight.  The most beloved character on the show, Kara Thrace, or “Starbuck,” turns out to be this golden child, this person with a destiny.  She turns out to have had precognitive visions that come out in her paintings.  And then all at once we find that her destiny was to wig out and die?

Okay, I trust Ron Moore and David Eick.  Starbuck can’t be dead (can she?).  There’s going to be more to this, I am certain.  Isn’t there?

All her life, she saw herself as just a …

Some time ago I invested the $250 in a Logitech Harmony 880 Universal Remote.  At first I was skeptical, but all in all it is a really nice remote.

The absolute best, and in some ways worst, thing about the Harmony is that you don’t program it like other universal remotes.  There’s no looking up codes and trying different sets of codes to see what works.  It’s all USB.

That’s right, you simply plug the Harmony into a PC, install a little software, and you’re off to the races.  The software was very easy to set and run up the first time …

Now that I am a road warrior again, I looked into the Slingbox as a way to get my TV from home anywhere that I am.  Here are my thoughts on the Slingbox.

The Slingbox is a new product that’s been out a year or so that is designed to allow you to stream your television content over a TCPIP network (that means the Internet).  The two things you will need, essentially, are a Slingbox and a computer to watch your television on.  The requirements for the network vary depending on your desires.

The first thing to do is to select the …