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Life without cable – Part 2

By arfore | Published: January 21, 2010
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

By arfore | Published: January 20, 2010
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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Apple TV cares about your FPS

By arfore | Published: March 10, 2009
In my process of tranferring my DVD collection to a digital media server I discovered that the Apple TV software is smarter than I thought. I have been ripping my DVD collection using Handbrake on my Mac and transferring them to a Windows box which is shared out via my internal only network to the [...]
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VNC on the AppleTV

By arfore | Published: December 10, 2008
Over Thanksgiving break I bought an Apple TV.  Like any good geek I wanted to expand the capability of the unit beyond the default setup. After installing Firefox and getting USB keyboard and mouse support going, I realized that it would be tremendously cool if I could control it from my iPhone instead of using [...]
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