digital TV

This past weekend I took PiBox out in the trailer for a field trial. The box was mounted under a cabinet with power and HDMI wrapped around to a 7″ HDMI-input monitor. Power on worked fine and the system came right up. But not everything worked as expected. Here is […]

PiBox field trial results

Thu July 02, 2015 in General / PiBox tagged Android / BUI / digital TV / GTK+ / HDMI / HDMI cables / HDMI switch / Media Player / Media Server / PiBox / wifi

It’s taken more than 2 years but I’ve finally finished the first versions of the PiBox Media Server and Media Player. The cases are stained wood boxes from a hobby store but they provide me with information on how to deal with layout in a 3D printed case. It also […]

PiBox prototype cases

Thu June 11, 2015 in PiBox tagged Android / custom boards / digital TV / HDMI / Media Player / Media Server / PiBox / projector / prototype / toolchain

I tested the antenna in my basement with the first of two digital converters (the second from Amazon still hasn't arrived even though it was ordered the same day) and an analog TV. The antenna was able to pick up all the expected channels which antennaweb.org said we should get. […]

Antenna up, first digital box tested

Sun May 09, 2010 in General tagged antenna / Bravia / cable / Comcast / digital converter / digital TV / MythTV / nvidia / radio shack / set top box / Sony / Video (updated 5097 days ago)

The problem with getting rid of cable TV comes from the desire to continue to receive local off-air broadcasts. When the government mandated switch to digital broadcasts occurred, cable users ignored it because the cable companies would handle the situation for us. As long as we were plugged into the […]