Wednesday, January 13, 2010

stream with your wii

Netflix streaming is coming to Wii in early spring 2010!
It's going to be one of those, needs a disc to run it, joints.
this could allow me to ditch my roku player... however, Wii isn't HD.


http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/wii-streams-netflix-coming-spring-world-rejoices/

Saturday, January 2, 2010

C'mon Fox, quit TWC, don't be a pussy

Bahhaha, oh man, it would be friggin hilarious if TimeWarner no longer provided Fox. Oh and sucks for Cablevisioners... no Food Network or HGTV



Et tu, NYT?

So New York Times... that's um, pretty cool that you did an article on a couple that have given up cable. Yeah I mean, look, they've got a pretty dope setup. A mac mini, an xbox 360 (I know i don't have it yet.... budgetary restraints), controlled by an ugly mouse. Oh and um, using boxee and hulu desktop eh? would have never thought of that one...

I knew I should have taken that left toyn at alba-koi-key

There's been another move in my apartment. For the, I don't know 7th time in our 3.5 years in this apartment, my lovely girlfriend has decided we needed to move things around again. This time we ended up with the antenna on the opposite side of the apartment. It's sort of pointing east, which according to that website I found months ago, is not quite NorthWest. But... reception has been better than ever. coo...

Shooting stuff and streaming Netflix!

I've been thinking for a while now... how can I stream Netflix and shoot zombies (among other things) all in one unit? The answer is Xbox360. I've seen it in action at my future brother in law's, and it's really well done. I'd be able to get rid of my Roku box and give me something more to do while not watching live TV.
PS3 as of Nov 10th or so, can also stream Netflix (though I've heard it's a bit of a PITA, will confirm later) it involves loading a disc and installing stuff. It would also give me the ability to watch blu-ray (though my need for quality is slowly fading) and I would feel better about microsoft not getting my money.... no left4dead 2 though... oh and it costs a little more I think.
Obviously, I've done my research.

The Boxee Box (should have posted around Dec 7th 2009)

to be release quarter 2 of 2010
in collaboration with some jerks, blah blah blah... bottom line, looks awesome, but do i need yet another component? probably not, but i suppose if you dont have a HTPC, this little guy (abbout the size of a coke can), could fit conveniently... nowhere

Receiver Woes

It didn't seem so apparent at first, but sometimes when I'd switch to my HTPC set up, I saw some flickering... usually it would go away on it's own, but I found more often then not, that I would have to restart my mac and the flickering would stop. I assumed it was something related to the mac, but after a slight setup change, I noticed the same flickering from my Roku box. Which leads me to believe my receiver id F'd.

Now this isn't something new to me, I did buy it as an open box item from best buy... and it has already had it's share of issues, often not responding to volume control or sometimes not turning off... Sent an email to HarmanKardon, we'll see what they have to say... Sigh.

Wow, it's been a while. Um, I got a mouse...

So it's been about 6 months since I last wrote. Not too much change and still doing fine, 7 months cable free. I did finally get a wireless mouse... went for the Logitech MX AirMouse (pretty sexy, yeah?). Works in the air and/or on a desk... pretty sweet. It can get a little awkward controlling it in the air, there's no absolute space. I was sort of hoping it would be more like a Wii controller, but hey, it does the job.

I still think my ideal cursor mover would be a wireless version of Wacom's Bamboo Touch... or maybe it would be sort of like the touch pad of the latest macbook pro. I want zoom and all those fun iPhone like gestures!

I considered The Loop for a short while after reading an article in NYT (which I'll have post about later), but the decided it was stupid... also ugly.