Monthly Archives: January 2010

Life without cable – Part 2

In my previous post in this series, I laid out my reasons for dropping my monthly cable subscription and my initial choice of the AppleTV as the instrument for maintaining a reasonable method for my viewing entertainment. One of the main reasons behind the choice of the AppleTV was the fact that it supported 5.1 [...]
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Life without cable – Part 1

A little over a year ago I joined a growing group of people that are eschewing the cable monopoly for their viewing entertainment. After many years of being a faithful, if sometimes unwilling, cable subscriber, I realized that there was no financial sense to subscribe to a channel lineup consisting of roughly 80 stations simply [...]
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Updating your Plex video source file paths

Today while perusing the forums on the Plex website, I noticed someone inquiring as to how they would go about changing the file paths in Plex for one of the video sources without removing the source and adding it back from the new location. The reason for wanting to do this is to ensure that [...]
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Plex, Mac OS X and the Python instances

So several months ago I was in Atlanta visiting some friends (Hi, Justin!) and got hooked on his hackintosh Plex box.  Now, I wanted to run it on a Mac Mini, instead of a hackintosh, but the application was great.  Since then I have purchased the Mini and had a blast getting Plex working and [...]
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Simplify Media and Plex Media Server Conflicting?

This weekend I spent a large chunk of time setting up Plex Media Center for OS X on my shiny new Mac Mini.  When I left for work this morning, after two weeks off, I expected to get to the office and fire up iTunes to listen to my music from home using Simplify Media [...]
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