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Friday Links 02.06.09

February 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm by Melissa

Home Theater PC – 02/04/09
The case for computers (HTPC’s to be exact) over extenders. Home Theater PCs are by design (and by name) Personal Computers and there are still many good reasons to use a computer by your TV instead of an extender I’ll explain why today. Via GeekTonic

Attention, Analog Users: You have until June 12th – 02/04/09
The House has passed the bill that delays the digital-TV transition from February 17th to June 12th. If you’ve got any analog TVs bumping around the house that aren’t connected to a digital source, you’ve got slightly under four additional months to (A) buy a converter, (B) supply them with a digital-ready set-top box, or (C) buy a snazzy new TV. via Technologizer

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3 Responses to “Friday Links 02.06.09”

1. DrR Says:
   February 22nd, 2009 at 5:38 pm

   Many analog stations have already made the transition (On Tuesday February 17, as originally scheduled), including all the stations in the Rockford Il / Madison WI market areas. Unfortunately, the Snapstream guide has not been updated so we are out of luck watching four of the stations in this area.

2. Rakesh Says:
   February 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 am

   I’ve posted about this here:
   http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?p=309609

   we’re getting a lot of line-up discrepancy reports right now. We had 4x the average last week over the norm.

   The company we get our guide data from (the same company that supplies TIVO and MCE and most other DVR products with guide data) is dealing with the changes that have come with the digital switchover. I don’t know when they expect to have everything cleaned up, but we’ve been passing along all the discrepancy reports and sometimes this can speed up their addressing problems.

   If you want to submit your program guide discrepancy, visit this page:
   http://www.snapstream.com/support/Support.aspx

   Choose “Technical support” and then “Beyond TV” and then “Program guide discrepancy to report” and then complete the form.

3. Rakesh Says:
   February 23rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm

   Also, I recommend you submit your line-up change problem directly to Tribune (the people we license program guide data from).

   Instructions are here:
   http://forums.snapstream.com/vb/showthread.php?p=309621&posted=1#post309621