What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
One of the core reasons I started Noobie was to help technology challenged people wade through all of the baloney (I'd like to use a stronger word but I won't) that's thrown at them from the technology media. Last night was a prime example. I was watching the Indianapolis Colts fall to the Chicago Bears on television which already put me in a sour mood (I may have grown up Wisconsin but I live just outside Indianapolis) when a new Comcast commercial aired. The commercial simulated a Family Feud style game show where contestants had to answer who had the… Continue reading...
I did a double-take when I read my TiVo email newsletter today. I thought I was seeing things. It said you can now watch YouTube videos right from your TiVo. The newsletter included a screenshot of a familiar TiVo screen but with a new YouTube item. I didn't read another word of the newsletter. Instead I ran straight to my family room and brought up the TiVo menu. It was right around this time that I remembered that I had recently received the TiVo summer service upgrade on my TiVo HD DVR. I had read all of the highlights of… Continue reading...
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I encountered my first challenge with my new cable-less, satellite-less, antenna only television setup. Burn Notice, a show that airs on the USA Network, kicked off its second season. The challenge was that I got hooked on the first season of Burn Notice but no longer received the USA Network. Worse yet, by the time I realized the second season had started, three new episodes of Burn Notice had already aired. I panicked for a moment but then realized I had the Amazon Unbox service in my back pocket (not literally). I jumped over to the Amazon Unbox web site… Continue reading...
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A friend of mine called me today and told me how much he enjoyed the screencast on the Noobie web site that showed him how easy it is to watch television shows and full-length movies on the Hulu web site. He followed his comment up with a question that I found difficult to answer. Difficult because it's the type of question that I know the answer to but am not really sure I should give out to anyone. He was asking me if he could download the videos from Hulu to his computer so he could watch them later. He… Continue reading...
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If you thought the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray was ugly, take a look a the current battle for downloadable Internet movies to your television. Off the top of my head, I can watch download a movie to any of the following devices and then watch it on my television: TiVo via Amazon Unbox, Apple TV and now Netflix. I've written previously about how you can watch Netflix's instant movies on your television by streaming them to a laptop connected to your television. But today that whole process just got easier. Netflix now has a small device, manufactured by… Continue reading...
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