Inaug09... and Tech to watch it.
Jan. 20th, 2009 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strredwolfI was able to watch the Inauguration of Pres Obama at the office.
No, I didn't stream it. The network firewall's too fickle. Besides, in our day and age, I had better technology.
You see, I got a refurbished Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro (the 800e) from Woot! for cheap. $40 total. It's a handy little NTSC/ATSC receiver/digitizer... but of course, ATSC is already digital. So, all I really needed was to take it, the antenna that came with it, and my EeePC, and go to town.
There was a bit of hesitation and occasional studdering, though, on the card... or should I say the EeePC. It may be a Atom but it was working on that video like nothing else. A quick Google search showed a possible solution: Turn off deinterlacing. I doubt anyone was using it for DTV, which I was hooking onto. This droped the CPU load, and thus the signal became stable.
I thus like what I'm seeing.
No, I didn't stream it. The network firewall's too fickle. Besides, in our day and age, I had better technology.
You see, I got a refurbished Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro (the 800e) from Woot! for cheap. $40 total. It's a handy little NTSC/ATSC receiver/digitizer... but of course, ATSC is already digital. So, all I really needed was to take it, the antenna that came with it, and my EeePC, and go to town.
There was a bit of hesitation and occasional studdering, though, on the card... or should I say the EeePC. It may be a Atom but it was working on that video like nothing else. A quick Google search showed a possible solution: Turn off deinterlacing. I doubt anyone was using it for DTV, which I was hooking onto. This droped the CPU load, and thus the signal became stable.
I thus like what I'm seeing.
