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Media Center Digital Transition Issues

Media Center Service Alert You’d think those using HTPCs for their TV recording and viewing would be the least likely to be affected by the Digital Transition last week, but you’d be wrong.  Many HTPC users (mostly Microsoft Media Center users) that rely on over-the-air (OTA) TV broadcasts for their TV signal have been experiencing major issues with incorrect guide data and incorrect channel mapping since the switchover.

Reports across the web have been streaming in about peoples entire TV Guide lineup showing incorrect channels, nothing but static or in some cases just disappearing. Here’s a few examples of rumblings on the issue:

Does DISH Have The TiVo Antidote?

bearhugI hate to admit it, but I’m feeling a little foolish right now. Last week, I raised the question of whether or not Dish was researching a hostile takeover of TiVo. In my article, I concluded that they might try, but that they’d never be able to afford the $7.5 billion poison pill that came with it.

Hello Sprint MiFi, Goodbye Cradlepoint

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Digital Media Bytes: NewTeeVee Edition

Leaving comments across the blogosphere NewTeeVee…

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Pre Impressions from a Palm Fanboy

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Old Mobile TV and New Mobile TV

mobile-tvThe broadcast digital transition today reminded me of all the old “portable” TV sets that were once the height of cool tech, and are now headed to the junk yard. (Don’t throw them away, find out where to recycle at Earth911.com.) I had a couple versions of these old mobile TVs. One was portable in the sense that you could move the six-inch-by-12-inch block from outlet to outlet or regularly feed it six C batteries. The other was small enough to hang around my neck and took some smaller form of battery. Neither got reception worth a damn.

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