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A year later...

My Time Warner promotional has just expired, so I'm back up to $100+/mo for the cable. My plan is to turn the boxes in on Tuesday (I'm off work for a teacher work day).

Here's what I've come up with...

1) Mac Mini hooked up to the TV. For now, I'm just using EyeTV for recording, and don't have unified media center software. EyeTV does a very nice job with recording and scheduling,etc. I use TV Guide for the scheduling/program info (free 1 year trial, I will either pay the $20/ year or switch to Titan TV when the trial is up).

2) HD Homerun tuner (and another USB stick if I need 3 tuners).

3) AppleTV in the bedroom as a media streamer.

The AppleTV isn't ideal, but works fine. What I've noticed in the last year is that we never watch TV in the bedroom, so it's not very relevant. Sally often watches General Hospital on the computer, either streaming from the network, or now, streaming the recording from the Mac Mini.

EyeTV can export to iTunes, so we can automate that process if we want to watch in the bedroom. Unfortunately, it is kind of slow doing an export of HD programming. Most shows we don't want to watch on the little TV anyhow.


The real plan here is to watch less TV and do more activities that are useful (play the Wii, read a book, exercise, brew beer, etc).

Oh yeah, anyone in Durham/Chapel Hill manage to pick up Ion network out of Rocky Mount. We get it sporadically, but I couldn't seem to re-aim my antenna to make it any better.