Stranger than Fiction

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Alec Baldwin’s got nothing on Christion Bale when it comes to cussing someone out 😀

And the Jason Statham commercial was parodying the progression of Grand Theft Auto videogames from Grand Theft Auto 3 through Vice City, San Andreas and IV 😉

And not that Fallout 3 isn’t spectacular (it is – but it’s on Xbox360 as well as PS3 and PC), but the killer ap I mentioned for the PS3 exclusively is Killzone 2 😉

Yeah!! You answer my question on the podcast!! Want to listen to it, but wont till I get here. Just got done with #51, tomorrow will start on #52. At work I get about 4-5 podcast a day. So I’m not that far away till I get here. I wont stop till I hear them all in chronologically order. Since I don’t have that many Geek point (don’t have massive knowledge of anything, just really enjoy movies), this will definitely give me some points.

And to I want to be Hard Core like Tom, Happy like Clint, and Nice like Dina.

Funky Fresh!!!

I may have revealed myself as the grammar police last time, but there are three other common mistakes in everyday communication that bug me even more:

1) when people spell the word, “your” when they mean, “you’re”.

2) when people spell the word, “to” when “too” should be used.

3) when people pronounce the letter, “t” in the word, “often”.

Number 3 was even mentioned in one of my favorite new sitcoms, “The Big Bang Theory” and I was very amused and pleased to hear it brought up on a television show 😀

I sort of disagree with Tom that the sound really sucks on the Roku. PLII x on my processor does a good enough job that nothing really makes me notice or pay attention to the sound. We tend to watch TV shows with it. We have never had cable so feels to us that there is tons available.

We definitely order the disc if we want to have a movie experience.

Overall the Roku is a huge bonus for us because we like to watch TV after it is out on disc, but really hated tying up our queue with discs that only have a few episodes on them. It allows us to have the best of both movies and TV for no increase in cost.

Last night we wanted to watch Heroes but it was streaming way too slow so we just threw in a dvd out of a red envelope and enjoyed our evening. As long as that doesn’t become the way it is all the time I am OK with it. It is, after all, free.

Jeb

Okey Dokey,

Judge: “Spell Bit torrent”
Me: “Bit torrent?”
Me: “Definition please.”
Judge: “A more efficient way to distribute shakey handicamm’ed versions of newly released movies quickly.”
Me: “Bit torrent”
Me: “B-I-T-T-O-R-R-E-N-T”
Me: “Bit torrent”

Oops, wrong game.

Here’s my stab at a < 10 word description:
“Jigsaw puzzle: to receive missing pieces, share yours with others.”

So a longer description would be:

Bittorrent splits files into little pieces like how a jigsaw puzzle splits a picture into many little pieces. You can get copies of puzzle pieces from the seed (a person with the complete jigsaw puzzle) and your peers (people that have incomplete puzzles like you), provided you share whatever pieces you have with your peers. The cool thing is that a seed will give different pieces to each peer when they ask for them, so peers can grab missing pieces from each other as well, therefore reducing the number of pieces the seed has to hand out to provide all the peers with complete puzzles… thus reducing bandwidth needed from the seed’s point of view.

This week’s photo gets my vote for Jeremy’s finest piece of work. You rock dude!

Since Dina always asks, Yes, I’m “Kurt? Our Kurt? The Kurt from Boston?”

In the Tom needs a PS3 discussion, Fallout 3 was mentioned as a reason he needs one. This is a RPG that’s also out for the 360, so it’s not enough of a reason on it’s own to get the PS3.

However, Killzone 3 is a PS3 exclusive shooter that looks fun 🙂

You guys should have an AVRant Gears of War 2 Horde Mode listener night. Or insert game of choice.

As for the guy that wants to share media through the house, there is always the Microsoft Media Center infrastructure. You could have one host PC and a bunch of extenders (like the Xbox, Linksys, etc). I’ve been able to actually stream HDTV video over wireless N, but YMMV.

Andy S – that was me wanting to have all of my sources in one central location and then be able to watch any of them on any of my 4 TVs throughout my apartment. It’s funny that you mention Windows Media Center because I’ve ended up using that for all of my music, ripped DVDs, pictures and internet content!
But my remaining problem is HDTV. I’m in Canada, so pulling in OTA HDTV doesn’t result in many channels. It’s pretty much either Shaw Cable or Bell ExpressVu Satellite where I am – there really aren’t any other choices. I’m with Shaw Cable because my apartment faces North and there’s no clear signal path for a Satellite dish.
End result, I have a dual tuner HD DVR from Shaw. I’m using a 4×4 matrix HDMI switcher so that I can view the HD DVR, PS3, Xbox360 or Oppo DVD/SACD player on any TV. But, of course, if I’m watching TV, I’m only getting one signal out of the HD DVR so all TVs that are being used for TV have to show the same thing.
For the most part, it’s all good – I can have music streaming from the Windows Media Center into one rooml; have HDTV from the Shaw HD DVR on in the living room, have a Blu-ray going from the PS3 in the bedroom and have an internet feed streaming from the Windows Media Center to the small LCD in the bathroom. But if I ever want to have different TV shows on in different rooms, I can’t do it except to just have the SD feed that comes straight out of the wall in addition to the one output of the HD DVR.
So the last piece of the puzzle is to find a way to get all of my HD DVR content onto a single, central server that could feed all TVs independantly. I guess I could pony up and get 4 seperate DVRs, but that seems a little extreme!

Because three entries are always better than two:

RTSP moves compressed video, i.e. MPEG4, over Internet. Argh, Magic!

Decoded from Geek Speek to Real speak:

Really Tiny Sharing Pirate moves compressed video, i.e. Magic Pixels Everyone Gets – level 4, over Internet. Argh, Magic!

Jonathan_Teller:

Do you guys have CableCard in Canada? If so, you could buy a pre-built Dell, HP, etc that support those. Unfortunately those are generally pricey PCs and I prefer to build my own. But it is a viable way to go for both HD cable DVR functionality as well as tuner distribution to any of the Extenders.

Another option for either satellite or cable would be to look into the SageTV ecosystem. With Sage, you would be able to get a Hauppauge HD PVR to control, capture/stream content out of your cable/sat box via component cables (controlling with IR blaster). It wouldn’t be the cleanest setup as you might have to get an extra box to feed the HD PVR to allow you to still watch live TV on the main one. But it’s a thought.

Meant to include in that last post that Sage has their own HD extenders. EngadgetHD reviewed one last week and liked it.

Andy S – thanks!I hadn’t heard of Sage, so I’ll definitely look into that. We do not use CableCard – or at least Shaw doesn’t.

Oh Finally I hear my answer. to my question. Hey what the Crap clint! Im not filty rich! But thanks for letting me know, what I was wondering about.