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About MegaZone

MegaZone is the Editor of Gizmo Lovers and the chief contributor. He's been online since 1989 and active in several generations of 'social media' - mailing lists, USENet groups, web forums, and since 2003, blogging. MegaZone has a presence on several social platforms: Google+ / Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / LiveJournal / Web. You can also follow Gizmo Lovers on other sites: Blog / Google+ / Facebook / Twitter.

A Quick Way To Get More HD Resolutions From Your SciAtl HD STB

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by MegaZone

Don Reisinger at NewTeeVee has a quick tutorial on getting more HD resolutions out of your Scientific Atlanta cable STB. No hacking required, just a little back door into the configuration options. Pretty nifty. Via EngadgetHD.

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TiVo NowPlaying, An OS X Dashboard Widget

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by MegaZone

Alex at TiVo Blog has a new post up reviewing an Dashboard Widget for OS X – TiVo NowPlaying. I don’t own a Mac, so I can’t comment myself, but it looks like a nice application. It can auto-detect the … Continue reading →

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Comcast Finally Deploying TiVo Software For General Customers

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by MegaZone

It seems that Comcast is finally letting the TiVo software out in the wild. Sure, there have been awkward statements about it running on some ‘non-employee’ boxes for a while and such – which very likely means ‘friends and family’ … Continue reading →

Posted in OCAP, TiVo | Tagged Cable, Comcast, OCAP, software, TiVo | 5 Comments

PlayStation3 To Get Blu-Ray Profile 1.1 Support Tomorrow

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 by MegaZone

It looks like the PS3 will get Blu-ray Profile 1.1 (aka Final Standard Profile aka ‘Bonus View’) tomorrow. The European PlayStation site let the cat out of the bag by prematurely posting a page which referred to the 2.10 firmware … Continue reading →