20 Years of HD TiVo
It’s been 20 years since the DIRECTV HR10-250, the first high-definition capable TiVo, started arriving in customer’s living rooms. The Phoenix (as the HR10-250 was known within TiVo), was a project born out of the dreams and passion of two engineers. It went on to become a beacon of inspiration and excitement during an uncertain …
The Project Entangle EX-β
A couple months ago we were thrilled to assemble an Entangle platform that actually looked and felt more like a set-top box. The Entangle EX-α is a Raspberry Pi 4 mated to an HDHomerun Flex 4k. Unfortunately stock FFmpeg doesn’t enable hardware-accelerated HEVC decode, which is needed to watch ATSC 3.0 broadcasts. And while patches …
Send In The Clones! Cloning the Silver Sensor
For many years one of our favorite antennas, and our go-to antenna for on-the-road OTA, was the venerable Silver Sensor. It’s on the compact side and has an interesting reception pattern – it’s somewhat directional and rejects signals from the back, but has a rather wide reception from the front. We had one since the …
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