Category Archives: Technology

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →