Battlefield:Heroes look's like it's finally ready to launch. I have been playing the beta for a few months now(I suck because I'm old)and it's been lots of fun. It look's like they are almost ready to go into open beta.
I had the opportunity to place an order with Thinkgeek.com the other day. I had won a $100 gift certificate in a contest from Geekstorage.com, my host. Geek storage ran a contest for true reviews of their service and their site at the major web hosting review sites and had a prize of 3 $100 thinkgeek.com gift certificates.
One of the great thing that I like about GB-PVR is the fact that the addons are so good and easy to install. Most addons install with one click just like any other program. The first two that I recommended were search addons for GB-PVR. This addon is a burning add on so that you can burn DVD's with your computer and watch your shows on a different TV. I like the idea that I can burn all the shows that I want to watch for a certain week and then just spend a few hours watching them. I don't have to be a slave to my TV schedule anymore. If I'm tired i just burn them and then take the disk to bed and watch them in bed.
GB-PVR is a great DVR program but it still needs some improvements to make it more complete and useful. I will focus on 2 plug ins that are a must use to improve the overall usability of the program.
The one thing that GB-PVR lacks is an adequate search function. Luckily this is improved with my 2 must have search plug ins.
The last article that I wrote on building a dvr / pvr with my computer I had decided to use Media Portal or Sage TV as the software for the machine. I played with it for a week or so and decided that I wanted to try something different. Both Media Portal and Sage TV are good programs and I don't want to criticize Media portal too much since it is available for free and does work well if you are willing to do some tweaking under the hood. The other major player in the free dvr market is GB-PVR.
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