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"Check back here tomorrow - I'll have the full, very-detailed review of the Nook posted on GeekTonic by then. I agree with many of the reviewers who say the UI is a bit underwhelming in its current form, but I think the Nook has a great deal of potential - potential I think that will be unleashed with future firmware updates. And it has some big positives over the Kindle also." - Brent Evans

"John, All of the benefits of using a HTPC - as many tuners as you want to have so you can record as many at a time as you want, movie & music server, etc etc. I'm not a big fan of having the XBox360 as the extender though." - Brent Evans

"I'm checking on that to see what David (author of this post) has to say. I've also been asked if this solution works with multiple HD-PVR's - not sure on that either." - Brent Evans

"Did it in the past Ben? I know the HD-PVR used to have issues, but my HD-PVR has been humming along (silently) for over a month without rebooting or locking up at all. That's with SageTV though so I'll have to see what others say using this method" - Brent Evans

"I think Netflix makes it pretty clear . It very clearly states "we cannot refund partial months" But they absolutely do credit you for the time it is on hold - I know cause I have mine on hold as I type this ;)" - Brent Evans

"I think Netflix makes it pretty clear . It very clearly states "we cannot refund partial months" But they absolutely do credit you for the time it is on hold - I know cause I have mine on hold as I type this ;)" - Brent Evans

"Perhaps, but I think a device like a Kindle provides more freedom for a vision impaired person. Imagine if they could actually navigate the Kindle bookstore, purchase and download a book without assistance and then "read" a book, newspaper or magazine with no help at all. Not necessarily a cheaper solution, but a great way to gain freedom imo." - Brent Evans

"Very informative article Ganesh. Choosing the right video card is one of the things I always struggle with when building HTPC's - even more than choosing the CPU and case believe it or not. I'll definitely be referring back to this next time I do a build!" - Brent Evans

"Thanks for the heads up - I've corrected it now. I'm gonna have to fire that proofreader - oh wait that's me :( If anyone notices any other problems let me know. I've been looking at it far to long to notice the obvious stuff by this point..." - Brent Evans

"My library does have digital downloads for "loaning" media so I'll check into that. Thanks for the question." - Brent Evans

"Perhaps I should have said "If you use SageMC, there’s nothing left to do ON THIS STEP – it just works. You then move on to the "Settings for Comskip" section right below that. Hope that helps." - Brent Evans

"You're funny... Yes you are exempt. Your reward is getting to use all of the cool gadget stuff that comes to the GeekTonic home ;)" - Brent Evans

"Graphics card really doesn't need to be much on the server unless you'll be doing playback on it - integrated graphics will work fine. The CPU can be pretty weak and still handle things pretty well although I'd recommend you go with a beefier CPU - even a dual core or better if you have that option. Reason being, my server does transcoding for Hulu & Netflix via PlayOn and it does commercial detection while watching shows so both of those things use up CPU. Be sure and throw in a bunch of memory too - it does use up memory on the server. I have 2GB on my server, but am planning to bump it up to 4GB soon." - Brent Evans

"It should do both. Post your specs on the SageTV forums along with the issues you're having" - Brent Evans

"Actually, the replacement for SageTweet called SageAlert offers the following: Twitter, Growl, eMail and other notifications so yes it's very possible http://forums.sagetv.com/forums...?..." - Brent Evans

"Right, but neither of those have 3G wireless either." - Brent Evans

"They would be happy with Kindle's if we bought them their kindles (both of them) and paid for all the books they bought ;)" - Brent Evans

"Elizabeth, A good how-to on changing autoplay in XP is here http://www.kevinscrate.com/blog...... Same concept, just a little different settings page in xp" - Brent Evans

"As of 4:30pm CST I still can't get the update on our Kindle wirelessly. Anyone else having issues?" - Brent Evans

"The Price on the Vidabox HTPC case just dropped to $250 which means that with the instant $50 off code you can get it for $200!" - Brent Evans

"Nice! Wish they would have linked back here though. Thanks for pointing that out - Not sure I would have noticed otherwise." - Brent Evans

"You want to pick up the latest comskip zip file - as of now http://www.kaashoek.com/files... although he does updates regularly so always check to pick up the most recent one." - Brent Evans

"No it isn't. It's tact http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... Unless you were thinking I was speaking of horse equipment... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... But thanks for trying to help ;)" - Brent Evans

"You're welcome. I was having trouble with comskip as well so I documented the process of dirmon2. I actually like it better than comskipmonitor anyway so it was a good move. I hope to try out DVRMSToolbox in the near future as well - and of course will do a writeup for that one too." - Brent Evans

"I think the XL version might just be better in some ways, but I'm betting it will be a problem in other ways since google controls the UI so much more. Will it affect SageTV's HD Extender/Players? Time will tell, but I think the answer is yes. It just depends how long it will take google to get in touch with them..." - Brent Evans

"Agreed Clift. It's just that Google gave the folks at PCH about one months warning which obviously is not enough time." - Brent Evans

"Thanks to the folks at Gadget Wisdom for the guest post. MythTV is something I'd like to expose GeekTonic readers to a little more and this is an excellent start for that." - Brent Evans

"Thanks for mentioning the link - missed it when I first posted this, but it's back now. Thanks" - Brent Evans

"Maybe I'm being over reactive here, but I think it would definitely motivate me to go to a blockbuster, redbox or whatever alternative if it was a flick I wanted to see at home as soon as it was available. I don't go out to the theater very often - even if its a show I really want to see I'll often wait until it's on Blu-ray to watch it on my home theater setup. Then again... for most movies you're right that I probably would barely notice." - Brent Evans

"Bummer. That was definitely a good one." - Brent Evans

"Anyone want to loan me a CableCard tuner for a week so I can test this out with SageTV's 3rd party "experimental" workaround? I'd pay for shipping :)" - Brent Evans