Is now a good time to point out that Wired News and Wired the deadtree magazine are really separate entities? I'm not sure how much Wired News will notice your support by magazine subscription *shrug*
historically "bands"(except for the super established acts like Madonna/etc that have more favorable recording contracts) have made their money on the road (the performance, t-shirt sales, cut of the concession/etc).
With CD sales the artists (with some exceptions) generally get such a small portion of the take. There's countless stories of musicians/bands with number 1 singles/albums and are broke (and not necessarily from living in excess) at the time their album is number 1.
You obviously go on the road to help promote/further your CD/band, but you also do it to make money.
Instead, we'll be streaming content to digital media adapters from a PC in our home office.
No we wont. I'll be back on the couch as he describes, and certainly not walking into the "home office" to queue up my next piece of media.
Somewhere between a small laptop and a PDA / phone to transmit input via WiFi maybe, but replacing a home stereo component with a traditional PC will not catch-on.
*sigh* You don't have to do this (get up and change media) NOW. You can have full control over your "office" located media server and stream it to a network client near your TV and control it all from your couch with a regular remote control.
It's not like network adapters and media "clients" are new ideas/technology. I'm sure several people will point to using lightweight/quiet mini-itx mythtv client boxes, or modded xbox's w/XBMC as clients to some media store in a closet somewhere.
Viiv is the "centrino" branding of new DRM lockdown...
This type of a-hole (analog hole) closing tom foolery is already in place with "upscanning" HDTV players designed to take the 480p and output it at 720p/1080i/etc. You get 720p via digital (so called protected) outputs, but get crap (low rez) out via analog component. In effect the DVD upscaling device you bought is intentionally crippled out of the box.
The end game doesn't look good for fair use, and the ability to move content around freely between devices:(
MythTV just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait until.19 (presumably) gets folded into knoppmyth (yeah I know, just build it from scratch using one of the excellent guides like Jarrod's Fedora Core howto... but knoppmyth does make it so easy...)
I'm a bit of a hauppauge wintv PVR x50 fan... because of it's pretty universally supported by 3rd party PVR applications, and the hardware MPEG2 encoding makes for low cpu usage during recording.
To me the media features in the silicon is what's getting cooler and cooler.
The fact that they added h.264 accelleration support to both the 6xxx AND 7 series is pretty cool, imho. Not leaving the previous generation card owners behind.
you could do a samba share and playback/stream almost anything on a non-linux HTPC solution (given enough elbow grease and initial config)
But of course if you already had a linux backend why not have a linux front end... usually the biggest barrier is comfortableness with linux (or a certain adventersome spirit if a life long windoze user)... once you get over that it's pretty straightforward:)
I think you end up using case fans (hopefully high quality, large ones, with a zalman fan mate or the like) to keep the airflow going because you probably chose mostly passively cooled components in your HTPC.
Have you seen those cases that are basically a giant heatsink? yech! and $$$$
part of this might be an mpeg2 decoder limitation, some software decoders handles this better than others... I think nvidia pure video decoder, for example, you'd need the premium tier decoder, unless you just need pass-through from a 5.1 source... the other piece of the puzzle, I believe, is to get a sound card with dolby digital encoding. But you're right that 5.1 isn't always 5.1 despite what it says on the package.
And always remember GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
I've heard good things about the mystique-x line for what it's worth.
you should probably pony up for one of those cool harmony remotes and integrate all the functions into one remote. Plus it handles things better. you hit "watch TV" button and it will send all the IR commands to turn on the TV, select the appropriate input, turn on cable box, audio receiver, set that to the right input, etc... instead of fumbling with 3 or 4 remotes *shrug* I don't have one, but that's my understanding.
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you're right... but unfortunately I think you'll see PC based cablecard support from billy boy and windows Vista MCE before you'll see it on linux (if ever?):(
DRM/content controls is really out of hand. Viva analog loophole!
"Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between MediaPortal and Myth TV? And Freevo?"
MediaPortal is on windows. The other two are linux based.
All are OSS.
The main difference between mythtv and freevo is approach/architecture. Mythtv has a larger feature set (which some would call bloat) than Freevo. But I think it depends on what features and approach is important to you.
"If you want to consider this a "business" and write off the expenses related to it, the IRS says it's got to be an activity carried on for the purpose of making a profit, not just a hobby that happens to generate income (even if it's a net profit). They have some nice, vague criteria on their website. Being considered a hobby doesn't free you from paying taxes on the income, but it does prevent you from deducting the expenses."
Discerning this sorta stuff is exactly where a good Accountant/lawyer/professional can help with their advice. Most people can do the paperwork, but it's this tax code/contextual stuff that I feel I need professional advice for.
You do have to be careful with deductions, though.
I have a comprable situation with my sites and income derived there from.
You will want an accountant to help sort out which business type is best for you based upon the amount of liability you're willing to personally take on, what tax structures/consequences, amount of paper work you're willing to deal with, etc.
You seem to be running a sole proprietership just by the fact of getting this extra income and you most likely used your name and your social security number to set it up with google ads/yahoo ads and will get a 1099-misc from them to file as additional income. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph you'll want to consider which business arangement (with help of accuontant/lawyer) makes sense for you... sole proprietorship, LLC, Inc. etc...
There are benefits and drawbacks to each (hence the professional help).
It probably makes some sense to get some sort of legal entity registered with your state/etc and business classification so that you can subtract business expenses from your income so that it doesn't count as much towards your overall income. Again, this isn't tax advice, consult a professional... but if you have an online/advertising business some seemingly legitimate expenses would be: internet access (if used only for business purposes, or do a percentage), webhosting, advertising to promote your site, bank fees, probably a PC to do updates/edits, other costs incurred in relation to your topic/content *shrug*
It may or may not be worth the accounting headache, but that depends on the amounts we are talking and your personal tax situation.
You may also, assuming a day job, want to/need to adjust your income tax withholding to compensate for the extra income (or not... IANAA)
Orb streamign software They have/offer a free streaming server/client thingie (for both video and audio)... I realize that's only part ofthe solution, but hey..
The rub with most TV card FM tuners (unless i'm mistaken) is that you can't concurrently use the FM tuner and the TV tuner (often they share the same ADC or mpeg2 encoding "bus" )
I've been thinking of doing the same thing except re-encoding sirius/howard for personal use/personal podcasting/timeshifting but only looked at what's involved quickly...
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Hauppauge and Cyberlink are working on a subscription satellite PC DVR solution so that you can legitimately "tune"/record your digital premium/subscription HDTV content from satellite.
But it's not out yet (just recently announced)...
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like 2 years ago in an chain hotel in Oakland. They also had overpriced electric shavers, and pay as you go cell phones... *yawn*
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Is now a good time to point out that Wired News and Wired the deadtree magazine are really separate entities? I'm not sure how much Wired News will notice your support by magazine subscription *shrug*
historically "bands"(except for the super established acts like Madonna/etc that have more favorable recording contracts) have made their money on the road (the performance, t-shirt sales, cut of the concession/etc).
With CD sales the artists (with some exceptions) generally get such a small portion of the take. There's countless stories of musicians/bands with number 1 singles/albums and are broke (and not necessarily from living in excess) at the time their album is number 1.
You obviously go on the road to help promote/further your CD/band, but you also do it to make money.
*shrug* I find this argument suspect.
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help help I'm being suppressed!
seemed to think that tech related homeland security projects were waning
Instead, we'll be streaming content to digital media adapters from a PC in our home office.
No we wont. I'll be back on the couch as he describes, and certainly not walking into the "home office" to queue up my next piece of media.
Somewhere between a small laptop and a PDA / phone to transmit input via WiFi maybe, but replacing a home stereo component with a traditional PC will not catch-on.
*sigh* You don't have to do this (get up and change media) NOW. You can have full control over your "office" located media server and stream it to a network client near your TV and control it all from your couch with a regular remote control.
Here's an old article from my site where you have an office PC, a pvr x50 card, and a MediaMVP to make a budget network streaming PVR that's controllable from your couch/remote control.
It's not like network adapters and media "clients" are new ideas/technology. I'm sure several people will point to using lightweight/quiet mini-itx mythtv client boxes, or modded xbox's w/XBMC as clients to some media store in a closet somewhere.
Viiv is the "centrino" branding of new DRM lockdown...
*sigh*
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that was a lotta hype for not much "fun" imho.
*shrug* maybe I'm just spoiled/jaded at this point.
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This type of a-hole (analog hole) closing tom foolery is already in place with "upscanning" HDTV players designed to take the 480p and output it at 720p/1080i/etc. You get 720p via digital (so called protected) outputs, but get crap (low rez) out via analog component. In effect the DVD upscaling device you bought is intentionally crippled out of the box.
:(
The end game doesn't look good for fair use, and the ability to move content around freely between devices
E.
MythTV just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait until .19 (presumably) gets folded into knoppmyth (yeah I know, just build it from scratch using one of the excellent guides like Jarrod's Fedora Core howto... but knoppmyth does make it so easy...)
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not sure about the generic TV card comment.
I'm a bit of a hauppauge wintv PVR x50 fan... because of it's pretty universally supported by 3rd party PVR applications, and the hardware MPEG2 encoding makes for low cpu usage during recording.
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Build Your Own PVR Community Site for news, reviews, howto, tips, and forum.
also see HTPCnews as well.
To me the media features in the silicon is what's getting cooler and cooler.
The fact that they added h.264 accelleration support to both the 6xxx AND 7 series is pretty cool, imho. Not leaving the previous generation card owners behind.
e.
you could do a samba share and playback/stream almost anything on a non-linux HTPC solution (given enough elbow grease and initial config)
:)
But of course if you already had a linux backend why not have a linux front end... usually the biggest barrier is comfortableness with linux (or a certain adventersome spirit if a life long windoze user)... once you get over that it's pretty straightforward
e.
I think you end up using case fans (hopefully high quality, large ones, with a zalman fan mate or the like) to keep the airflow going because you probably chose mostly passively cooled components in your HTPC.
Have you seen those cases that are basically a giant heatsink? yech! and $$$$
e.
part of this might be an mpeg2 decoder limitation, some software decoders handles this better than others... I think nvidia pure video decoder, for example, you'd need the premium tier decoder, unless you just need pass-through from a 5.1 source... the other piece of the puzzle, I believe, is to get a sound card with dolby digital encoding. But you're right that 5.1 isn't always 5.1 despite what it says on the package.
And always remember GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).
I've heard good things about the mystique-x line for what it's worth.
e.
you should probably pony up for one of those cool harmony remotes and integrate all the functions into one remote. Plus it handles things better. you hit "watch TV" button and it will send all the IR commands to turn on the TV, select the appropriate input, turn on cable box, audio receiver, set that to the right input, etc... instead of fumbling with 3 or 4 remotes *shrug* I don't have one, but that's my understanding.
you're right... but unfortunately I think you'll see PC based cablecard support from billy boy and windows Vista MCE before you'll see it on linux (if ever?) :(
DRM/content controls is really out of hand. Viva analog loophole!
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"Pardon my ignorance, but what is the difference between MediaPortal and Myth TV? And Freevo?"
MediaPortal is on windows. The other two are linux based.
All are OSS.
The main difference between mythtv and freevo is approach/architecture. Mythtv has a larger feature set (which some would call bloat) than Freevo. But I think it depends on what features and approach is important to you.
e.
Build your own PVR but then again that's probably no surprise ;)
also a very good resource: HTPCnews
"If you want to consider this a "business" and write off the expenses related to it, the IRS says it's got to be an activity carried on for the purpose of making a profit, not just a hobby that happens to generate income (even if it's a net profit). They have some nice, vague criteria on their website. Being considered a hobby doesn't free you from paying taxes on the income, but it does prevent you from deducting the expenses."
Discerning this sorta stuff is exactly where a good Accountant/lawyer/professional can help with their advice. Most people can do the paperwork, but it's this tax code/contextual stuff that I feel I need professional advice for.
You do have to be careful with deductions, though.
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Small Business Association
and someone mentioned NOLO which has a lot of articles (besides the publication mentioned) on legal stuff...
Good to get a sense of this stuff before seeing the accountant...
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IANAA but the parent is right.
I have a comprable situation with my sites and income derived there from.
You will want an accountant to help sort out which business type is best for you based upon the amount of liability you're willing to personally take on, what tax structures/consequences, amount of paper work you're willing to deal with, etc.
You seem to be running a sole proprietership just by the fact of getting this extra income and you most likely used your name and your social security number to set it up with google ads/yahoo ads and will get a 1099-misc from them to file as additional income. As I mentioned in the previous paragraph you'll want to consider which business arangement (with help of accuontant/lawyer) makes sense for you... sole proprietorship, LLC, Inc. etc...
There are benefits and drawbacks to each (hence the professional help).
It probably makes some sense to get some sort of legal entity registered with your state/etc and business classification so that you can subtract business expenses from your income so that it doesn't count as much towards your overall income. Again, this isn't tax advice, consult a professional... but if you have an online/advertising business some seemingly legitimate expenses would be: internet access (if used only for business purposes, or do a percentage), webhosting, advertising to promote your site, bank fees, probably a PC to do updates/edits, other costs incurred in relation to your topic/content *shrug*
It may or may not be worth the accounting headache, but that depends on the amounts we are talking and your personal tax situation.
You may also, assuming a day job, want to/need to adjust your income tax withholding to compensate for the extra income (or not... IANAA)
Good luck with your modest web publishing empire!
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these hairy palms?
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Orb streamign software They have/offer a free streaming server/client thingie (for both video and audio)... I realize that's only part ofthe solution, but hey..
The rub with most TV card FM tuners (unless i'm mistaken) is that you can't concurrently use the FM tuner and the TV tuner (often they share the same ADC or mpeg2 encoding "bus" )
I've been thinking of doing the same thing except re-encoding sirius/howard for personal use/personal podcasting/timeshifting but only looked at what's involved quickly...
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