Smooth runnings

Well, the excitement of Christmas is over, it's been back to regular scheduled programming (at work, that is). The HTPC has been running flawlessly, which I'm glad to report, as many people using the Firewire capture method of getting digital video out of their HD tuner box have had mixed results (likely a cause of not being able to decipher the nearly non-existant, outdated installation instructions difficult to find on the internet). We've amassed over a dozen movies we have yet to catch up on watching since the beginning of the month. I've found it much more enjoyable to watch my fave shows in HD over their SD counterpart - House and 24 top the list. I'm eagerly awaiting the return of Rescue Me, hopefully in HD, as this is probably my top must see TV show, and I've been awaiting a new season for 2 years!

Here's a video of the current setup in action:

In other semi-related news, I've upgraded to Telus High Speed Extreme (7Mb down, 1Mb upstream), after realizing that it was cheaper to upgrade from 2.5Mb - likely due to being on an old price protection plan. Nice of them to tell me! I'm eager to try SageTV Placeshifter outside my lan now, as before I only could get about 400k upstream, which gave watchable TV, but a bit blocky. 1Mb should be quite a noticeable difference!