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		<title>Happily impressed with Myth 0.20</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/09/14/happily-impressed-with-myth-020/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to spend too much time on this post. Maybe in the near future. I just spent a lot of time trying to analyze the National Surveillance Act of 2006. I am impressed so far. After switching MythTV over to using OpenGL I am greeted with a nice fade-in and fade-out on the menus. The integrated upnp server has been working perfectly (except for fast-forward, but I&#8217;ve had that problem with another upnp server too). It is nicer than my previous solution of using uShare and a renaming script to produce prettily-named symlinks to the video files. The integrated upnp server allows you to search by date recorded, title of the show, channel it was recorded from, &#8230; My old solution could only sort by title of show. Good job Myth Team!]]></description>
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		<title>BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film &#8211; 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/09/14/broadbandreportscom-25-cents-to-stream-a-dvd-quality-film-80-cents-for-hd-a-nickel-for-ipod-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From BroadbandReports.com: 25 Cents to Stream a DVD Quality Film &#8211; 80 Cents for HD, a nickel for iPod TV&#8230;: Dave Burstein crunches the numbers behind offering video via broadband and concludes that it costs a quarter to stream a DVD quality movie, 80 cents for an HD film, or a nickel for iPod or AOL TV shows. A much more reasonable analysis than the recent UK report that claimed it cost ISPs $39 to stream a two hour HD film. This compared to broadcast over the air video, which costs a few pennies per hour to distribute. &#8220;For providing managed servers and internet bandwidth, several content delivery networks are bidding $10,000 to $12,000 per continuous gigabit per month. That&#8217;s enough for 700 1.5 megabit streams, almost DVD quality if pre-encoded in the latest MPEG-4, Flash, or Windows Media. Amazon&#8217;s choice of 2.5 megabit encoding may be raising the bar. It&#8217;s also enough for over 3,000 300 Kbps streams, appropriate for iPods or the quarter screen video AOL and ABC are distributing supported by ads.&#8221; Burstein also comments on how players like Apple and Amazon will threaten TelcoTV&#8217;s already fragile projected profit margins.]]></description>
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		<title>MythTV 0.20 has been released!</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/09/11/mythtv-020-has-been-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release has one feature that I have been longing for, an internal UPnP server. I have been using uShare, the MythRename.pl script, and a a few cron jobs to pipe the PVR content to my D-Link DSM-320. Thread on the progress of the MythTV 0.20 Ebuild I am going to wait until an official Gentoo ebuild comes out for this version before I test it. From the Release Notes &#8211; 0.20 &#8211; MythTV: Major changes: Added MythArchive plugin for archiving recorded shows Menus are now drawn by MythUI using OpenGL. This option can be enabled/disabled in the Appearance settings. Improved internal DVD player &#8211; now supporting menus and other missing features Added MHEG content implementation Interactive TV in UK Added Hotplug support for removable media in Media Monitor and MythGallery Added support for the HDHomeRun encoding device Added support for basic FreeBox recorders Added support for H.264 aka MPEG-4 AVC TS decoding Added an MPEG1/MPEG2/MPEG4-AVC IP network recorder Added internal UPnP server support for TV and Music Added experimental second commercial detector New socket class for backend communications OSD image cache which improves channel changing speed Fixed program transition while Watching LiveTV Added beginnings of firewire capture support for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treehugger: The &#8216;Frig-Enerator-Water Supply&#8217;: A Working US Army Sponsored Prototype</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/07/treehugger-the-frig-enerator-water-supply-a-working-us-army-sponsored-prototype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treehugger has an upate to the technology that the University of Florida is working on to provide refrigeration, water, and power from one device. I previously spoke about this in the post New system provides power, water and refrigeration from one source. This new post at Treehugger has a picture of the device. Treehugger: The &#8216;Frig-Enerator-Water Supply&#8217;: A Working US Army Sponsored Prototype]]></description>
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		<title>New system provides power, water and refrigeration from one source</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/05/new-system-provides-power-water-and-refrigeration-from-one-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New system provides power, water and refrigeration from one source Engineers at the University of Florida have been working on a system that produces power, water, and refrigeration. The system is still in testing. The engineering researchers&#8217; solution: a small system that ties a novel gas turbine power plant to a heat-operated refrigeration system. The refrigeration makes the gas turbine more efficient, while also producing cool air and potable water. The turbine can run on conventional fossil fuels as well as biomass-produced fuels or hydrogen.]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Day of the Long Tail</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2006/08/04/video-day-of-the-long-tail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2006 03:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not spoken much about the Long Tail on this blog, but I am about to start to. The phrase was coined by Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. He has published a book titled The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Hardcover). I am currently reading the book and have found it to be very enlightning. While visiting his blog about the book, I encountered this video on YouTube: I definitely recommend that you visit longtail.com and consider purchasing the book.]]></description>
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		<title>MythTV</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2005/12/19/mythtv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long wanted to build myself a PVR. I thought that it would be nice to be able to control what I watch, and when I watch it. Commercial alternatives are restricting their features too much for my tastes. I wanted a system that would give me full control over everything, even if it cost more to build. My mantra is to always overdo things. I started out with a pretty powerful computer. It&#8217;s an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) in an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. I figured that it would be beneficial to HD playback, and any transcoding that I would perform. I started wiith two HD-3000 high definition tuners. What I did not realize is that these tuners are great for HD, but not so great for normal TV. I had to put in a second sound card to capture the audio from the second tuner. I then had trouble setting up which tuner recorded sound from which sound card. I got frustrated after a while. There were also tons of glitches in the video. It turns out that these glitches are not the fault of the card. It seems to be something with the MythTV code and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSM-320 Digital Media Receiver</title>
		<link>http://www.morph3ous.net/2005/03/12/dsm-320-digital-media-receiver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I purchased a D-Link DSM-320 Digital Media Receiver some time back. This product interested me as it was a video thin client of sorts. The DSM-320 utilizes Intel&#8217;s UPnP AV protocol which attempts to create a standard method for consumers to distribute media throughout their homes. Devices like these will likely play a large part in our future much to the dismay of many a large media conglomerate. The Internet has reduced the cost of distributing data significantly. The role of the traditional media company will lessen if they do not adopt the new technologies. The DSM-320 upon first examination was absolutely horrible. The video refused to stay synchronized with the audio. I almost gave up on the product after playing around with it for hours trying to figure out what the cause of the problem was. I learned that the product did not work properly with videos where the audio was in MP3 format but not CBR (constant bitrate). The problem was with the firmware. D-Link had rushed the product out too early. My best guess as to what was causing the problem was the demuxer. This is run in software and is the part that separates the audio [...]]]></description>
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