Goodbye Cable

The blog is a journal about where we are, sure we still have nature stuff (when the weather permits) but just today I will add a technical bit about our media delivery system.

Netflix (Canada) via any of the three boxes shown, left to right, dual Atom based mini-itx PC (eight inches square) running at 2.13GHz with HDMI out, next, Roku 2 XD streaming box and last, but certainly not least, the 3rd Generation Apple TV.

Attached to the PC is a Hauppauge 850 Hybrid ATSC/NTSC stick, for PVR capability and OTA through the Atom if we want it. The Atom is running XBMC as it's primary media centre. That little dongle at the base of the PC is a unifying remote for a wireless Logitech K400r with full size keyboard and trackpad.

Of course, our TV has an ATSC/QAM tuner, so we're grabbing any OTA with that.

More TV than we will ever need in this lifetime, goodbye cable....