Automated Home

Plex have released another raft of update goodness in the last few weeks including a new web based media manager, offline media syncing to your mobile device and Windows 8 support.  But another new addition has really made our day – after a lot of hard work the Plex app for Samsung TVs now supports [...]

Thanks to the sterling work of the Plex team – especially ‘hd1080′ – owners of all 2010 Samsung C-Series TVs with ‘Internet@TV’ and all 2011 D-Series TVs with ‘SmartHub’ are now able to install the free Plex client from the official apps store. A few clicks and the client was downloaded and installed and it [...]

Consumer Electronic Control (CEC) is bidirectional serial bus that allows components to control each other across an HDMI cable.  You’ve probably already heard of this system without knowing it as each manufacture gives it its own name, for example ‘Bravia Sync’ from Sony, ‘Kuro Link’ from Pioneer and ‘SimpLink’ from LG. With the new kwikwai [...]

Amazon are offering this amazing deal. A Toshiba mult-region DVD player for £79.99 – free delivery! Features This DVD player has been modified to provide multi-region playback To playback Region 1 discs will require an NTSC capable Television AC3 Decoder Dolby Digital/DTS compatible DVD/CD/VCD/SVCD Playback MP3/WMA Audio Playback DVD-R/CD-R/CD-RW Compatible Digital Photo Viewer (JPEG) Digital [...]

Yesterday EuropeMedia.net reported that Thomson have decided to stop manufacturing TiVos for the UK market. “TiVo’s UK manufacturing partner, Thomson, will cease production of the PVR devices shortly, having reconsidered its partnership.This decision has led to substantial price-cuts around the UK as stockists attempt to clear their supplies. iTVt reports that following the decision, TiVo [...]

The 20 quid maplins TV/Radio is back in stock! With it’s “composite in” feature it makes an ideal tool for setting up CCTV cameras around your house. “The ideal TV and radio for holidays, picnics, camping, hospital stays, etc. Totally portable, this TV and radio can be powered from the mains with the plug-in mains [...]

  London based Home Automation e-tailer Laser.com have just received stock of the TurboNet TiVo LAN cards, TiVo Memory and the hard drive brackets! "We have the following TiVo upgrade parts in stock: TURBONET £55 + VAT *(1) TIVOMEMORY £18 + VAT TIVOBRACKET £18 + VAT *(1) Comes with a bootable TiVo Boot Disk v2.6. [...]

  The UKs new Terrestrial Digital TV service went live today. "Freeview provides up to 30 free digital TV and radio channels plus a whole new world of interactive services, including enhanced coverage for events such as Wimbledon, Open Golf etc. Digital text services provide hundreds of pages of news, sport, weather and other information [...]

Ray Barnett’s “Taboo Channel” calculator – This handy little Windows app will show you what channels you can modulate your VCR, Satellite TV, TiVo, CCTV etc on your UHF setup.  Find out the channels in use in your area and click on them. The “taboo” channels – channels that suffer interference from the exiting ones [...]

Quinten Uijldert reported this link to the UKHA_D mailing list - ”For those that are still considering TiVo Unbeatable.co.uk have it now for £98.98 excl delivery (£7.99)”… Unbeatable TiVo Deal