Blogger is back
The last couple of days it seems that blogger.com was down, but it hardly cramped my style as I didn't really have anything interesting to say.
Today isn't much different. The weather is rainy, though not too cold. This weather seems to be caused by warm air mixing with the cold we already have, rather than the usual Arctic blast making things interesting. So far no risk of snow as weather people are thinking we might see 70 tomorrow. Still hoping that the weekend will be nice enough for one more ride through the countryside.
My HDTV card is working reasonably well. A couple of issues have popped up, which hopefully will be addressed with a future update. The first issue is that there are two different applications to watch TV, one for HDTV and one for regular TV, including the S-Video input from the ReplayTV. That's just annoying and there's no reason for it. Bad programmer, no biscuit. The second issue is much bigger, which is when watching HDTV with the audio coming out directly via S/P-DIF it will stop after a few minutes. I don't know if this is related to signal quality (or lack there of, I'm using a small antenna resting on top of my TV), or the audio drivers, or the HDTV application. Until a solution is found, I can use the work around of having the HDTV 5.1 audio down mixed to stereo.
Got a cool link, AntennaWeb.org shows you which way to point your antenna, how far away the transmitter is, and what kind of antenna you need to use to get good reception. If you're thinking about HDTV, you should check them out to see what's available in your area and what you'll need to get the most from your HDTV.
Today isn't much different. The weather is rainy, though not too cold. This weather seems to be caused by warm air mixing with the cold we already have, rather than the usual Arctic blast making things interesting. So far no risk of snow as weather people are thinking we might see 70 tomorrow. Still hoping that the weekend will be nice enough for one more ride through the countryside.
My HDTV card is working reasonably well. A couple of issues have popped up, which hopefully will be addressed with a future update. The first issue is that there are two different applications to watch TV, one for HDTV and one for regular TV, including the S-Video input from the ReplayTV. That's just annoying and there's no reason for it. Bad programmer, no biscuit. The second issue is much bigger, which is when watching HDTV with the audio coming out directly via S/P-DIF it will stop after a few minutes. I don't know if this is related to signal quality (or lack there of, I'm using a small antenna resting on top of my TV), or the audio drivers, or the HDTV application. Until a solution is found, I can use the work around of having the HDTV 5.1 audio down mixed to stereo.
Got a cool link, AntennaWeb.org shows you which way to point your antenna, how far away the transmitter is, and what kind of antenna you need to use to get good reception. If you're thinking about HDTV, you should check them out to see what's available in your area and what you'll need to get the most from your HDTV.
posted by Mark at 7:26 AM
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