Category Archives: Technology

In the next phase of my mediaPC project, I bought a tuner card today – I selected a WinTV-dualHD TV Tuner, because of the following reasons: the price was reasonable – about 100$ from PBTech It is supported by Plex for live-tv.  … Continue reading →

After much back and forth, I have selected my Media Centre aka TVBox I ended up choosing the fastest AndroidTV solution on the market that I could find. Here it is:  the H96 Max I did a lot of research … Continue reading →

I believe I am done looking at cord cutting solutions. There are many solutions out there, and they all claim to be superior.  Basically it comes down to the following requirements:  Need a media box of some sort.  Could be … Continue reading →

I’ve looked at a lot of devices now and I know what I want.  Must have: As fast of a chip as I can get.  At least 6-8 core, 64bit At least 3GB of (DDR3+) ram, prefer 4GB.  DDR4 would … Continue reading →

I’m still looking at Media PCs and selecting one is very confusing Trademe has a heap of AndroidTVs Very hard to weed through all these, and even within one product, there are variations some have different versions of firmware, I … Continue reading →

Someone asked me today what channels you will get on NZ Freeview. I found a list: Using a Sat dish, the list is much smaller, and not in High Definition quality:  

I’ve been looking at NZ Freeview, to see if I will get reception. It looks like you can get High Definition Freeview only over the air (via a Digital antenna) The alternative is using a satellite dish, but that doesnt … Continue reading →

I’ve been looking at cord-cutting solutions, as I want to get rid of Sky TV which costs over 60$ a month. The plan is to get a media box and do a combination of streaming services (as we have a … Continue reading →