Comments on: The Sunday Post 55 http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/ inter-media-gineering empire of Don Burnside Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dbmini.us » Top Gear in iTunes http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/comment-page-1/#comment-67458 dbmini.us » Top Gear in iTunes Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:04:57 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1514#comment-67458 <p>[...] This will work pretty well for me when I drop TV from my Fios service. [...]</p> [...] This will work pretty well for me when I drop TV from my Fios service. [...]

]]> By: chris http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/comment-page-1/#comment-65758 chris Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:00:20 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1514#comment-65758 <p>well, yes it can be done but you've got to hack it first. after hearing how leo bricked his appletv at first i haven't been man enough to try it. here's one way to do it:</p> <p>http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gigantastic-potential/apple-tv-hack-allows-external-usb-storage-283532.php</p> well, yes it can be done but you’ve got to hack it first. after hearing how leo bricked his appletv at first i haven’t been man enough to try it. here’s one way to do it:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gigantastic-potential/apple-tv-hack-allows-external-usb-storage-283532.php

]]> By: db http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/comment-page-1/#comment-65750 db Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:12:14 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1514#comment-65750 <p>Besides that, I noticed that among the ports on the back is a USB port. Couldn't one hook up an external drive to that if more space was needed?</p> Besides that, I noticed that among the ports on the back is a USB port. Couldn’t one hook up an external drive to that if more space was needed?

]]> By: chris http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/comment-page-1/#comment-65747 chris Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:05:34 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1514#comment-65747 <p>We come close to doing it all the time...but then I think of all the college/pro football I watch (50% on espn/2), political coverage (cnn), and my addiction to the food network it's just not going to happen. Sure, I could find these shows online, rip them to the apple tv but it's tedious enough to do that for about 4 shows I do now- I couldn't imagine doing it for everything I wanted to watch.</p> <p>as for buying an apple tv- go for it! also, if you don't want to spend the extra $ for the largest hdd get the small one- the streaming on the apple tv works great and it mashes your library together in a seamless way (ex: my apple tv has a 40gb drive yet when i leave itunes on on the main computer the apple tv finds all the other pictures, videos, songs, etc that it doesn't have locally and just streams).</p> We come close to doing it all the time…but then I think of all the college/pro football I watch (50% on espn/2), political coverage (cnn), and my addiction to the food network it’s just not going to happen. Sure, I could find these shows online, rip them to the apple tv but it’s tedious enough to do that for about 4 shows I do now- I couldn’t imagine doing it for everything I wanted to watch.

as for buying an apple tv- go for it! also, if you don’t want to spend the extra $ for the largest hdd get the small one- the streaming on the apple tv works great and it mashes your library together in a seamless way (ex: my apple tv has a 40gb drive yet when i leave itunes on on the main computer the apple tv finds all the other pictures, videos, songs, etc that it doesn’t have locally and just streams).

]]> By: George H http://donburnside.com/archive/the-sunday-post-55/comment-page-1/#comment-65261 George H Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:41:24 +0000 http://www.windthefrog.net/?p=1514#comment-65261 <p>Do it.</p> <p>I've gone without paid television service for over two years now, and I'm no worse for wear. Unless they offer an a la carte service for the 3 non-national channels that I actually would want to pay for, there's very little reason to pay that much for a service that isn't used.</p> Do it.

I’ve gone without paid television service for over two years now, and I’m no worse for wear. Unless they offer an a la carte service for the 3 non-national channels that I actually would want to pay for, there’s very little reason to pay that much for a service that isn’t used.

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