Author Archives: Alex

About Alex

As you can probably tell from this blog, I'm really a kid at heart. My little girls teach me a lot about being an adult.

Cutting the Cord: Part 4 – Original Xbox

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alex

Xbox Softmod XBMC was what first drove me to get all of our DVDs onto a computer and it also drove me to softmod our Xbox following a guide on Lifehacker. When the DVD drive stopped working in our Xbox, … Continue reading →

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Cutting the Cord: Part 3 – HTPC and Living Room Setup

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alex

Our living room is our main TV-watching area. This is where we watch our movies in surround sound and right now it’s the only place (besides our computers) where we can actually watch live TV. HTPC When we cancelled our … Continue reading →

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Cutting the Cord: Part 2 – Roku Streaming Player

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alex

Upstairs in our master bedroom we have a small TV that just has a Roku Streaming Player and a DVD player which hasn’t been used much in the last few months. The Roku does a pretty good job at fulfilling … Continue reading →

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Cutting the Cord: Part 1 – Backend

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alex

In the introduction of Cutting the Cord, I described a little of the background and goals of our cord-cutting solution. Each piece of that relies on our local area network and all of our digital media is stored on one … Continue reading →

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Cutting the Cord: Introduction

Posted on Friday, May 27, 2011 by Alex

We’ve been without pay TV (excluding Netflix) for about a year now and now that we have most of the kinks worked out, I thought I’d give you an update on how we’ve done it. For our cord-cutting experiment, we’ve … Continue reading →

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