The Treehouse Blog

After sitting on the todo list for a year, I have finally taken the plunge into the world of HDTV.  I purchased a Samsung LN40A550 which is an LCD 1080p display.  It arrived on my birthday, allowing me to watch the season premier of LOST that same evening (happy birthday to me!).  I’ve subsequently had to upgrade a few things – replacing my video card so that I have less tearing, and buying an HDhomerun for capturing QAM streams from my cable provider.  (Note to the internet: Kuhn Cable does have 6 channels of QAM!)  I still need to clean up the cabling to the HDhomerun, and fix an issue I have with not being able to seek recorded HD content, and assorted other Mythtv issues, and some playback stuttering, but I have a bigger, HD-er TV now.  Doug did a lot of this stuff just before me, so many thanks to him for being the trial run.

Update:  My seeking problem was due to a crashed “recordingseek” table.  I repaired it and then ran mythcommflag –rebuild to regenerate the information for the recordings that wouldn’t seek.