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Going to Try Something Fancy with My Cable

Motorola Docsis 3.0 Cable Modem ComcastI am going to try to rig up a home made Home theater PC with a DVR. I figure that it can be done with stuff that I have sitting around, although I am not sure how difficult it is going to be for me to make it work. I have Comcast cable tv and they are obviously not going to help me with this. The idea is to get out of paying them the monthly fee that they want to charge me for a DVR. I am wondering how hard it will be to figure out how to legally decrypt the HD signal. If you look at the laws they are supposed to help you do this pretty cheaply with a device called a CableCard. That was about ten years ago and the cable tv providers have been doing a really good job of getting out of doing that. In theory you should be able to rent one of these things for a very low price per month. I think it is legally supposed to cost a dollar and seventy five cents per month.

At any rate I have pretty much everything that I would need aside from one of these devices. I am guessing that I would have to get a video card for a computer which has a slot for something they call a Type M CableCard. It is another story to figure out how to get all the pieces to fit together and do the job in the way that the DVR that they charge you fifteen or twenty dollars a month to rent. The thing that I have not quite figured seems a bit simplistic, that is the concept of a program guide. You can not really have a DVR that works if you do not have one.


How Are You Trying to Get Agents, Producers and Record Companies to Listen to Your Mix?

There is a lot of noise out there making it tough to climb up to the top. You know there are great artists out there that never get discovered. Then there are some mediocre ones that seem to take off. The great ones that are hidden out there are just not getting the mass exposure they need. I thought about a mix on DatPiff, but saw what looked like thousands of artists competing to get their stuff downloaded for free. Then I looked into how I could buy DatPiff views. With your mix on DatPiff, you want it looked at and downloaded as much as possible. Even having it streamed is nice.

It is funny how you got to start out giving something away for free to get the professionals to notice you. One way to show them you can be a money maker is to have a huge following online. To get that huge following online, you need to have a lot of people wanting to listen to your stuff. Offering it for free download on DatPiff can get thousands and thousands of potential fans to hear your talent. That is, if they see you on the site. They may overlook you in the sea of other talent out there competing. If you buy DatPiff views, I think it ups your ranking on their home page.

Popular artists get noticed because they show up highly ranked on the site for simply being popular. However, what is a great way to get instant popularity on DatPiff? I think it is to buy DatPiff views. Up that count higher and higher to increase the ranking. Then you get noticed because you start showing up as the number on looked at or downloaded artist. Then when you get a higher rank with lots of views or downloads, you can show those numbers to agents, producers and record companies.


A Better Way to Take Selfie Videos

I like taking videos of anything and everything. I usually post at least one or two a week on some of my social media sites, and my friends and followers seem to like them well enough. I have received a lot better reception for them recently since I invested in a black selfie stick though. When I see other people posting videos now, I will usually leave them a comment if I can tell that they have not used one of these too. It is basically a way for me to take selfie videos without needing anyone else there to hold the phone for me.

It also has a lot of other cool features too. I am able to use the stick by holding it, and that takes a perfect video for me. If I want something that absolutely does not jerk around at all, I can attach it to a tripod that I also bought. I thought that if I did this, I would need to either have someone there with me to start it, or I would have to start it myself then run in front of it. I knew that would not look very professional, but there are just times that I want to be by myself when I am making my videos.

That is the feature that I like the best. If I am by myself and I want to use my tripod, I am able to use the Bluetooth activator to start recording my video. That way, I am in front of the camera, and there is no awkward moment of running to get in place. This has made my videos so much better, and I have received so many compliments because the video quality has improved that much. That is why I share this news with others, so they can have better videos too.


I Had to Do a Deposition Today

It was a bit uncomfortable, but really I did not know anything and so these guys were barking up the wrong tree. I was out of work today and these divorce lawyers had me doing a deposition all day. It is a pretty big deal, because my boss and his wife have a lot of stuff, a lot of money and three kids. They sent me down town to the Willie and Dasher law office on Capital of Texas Highway. I was almost late because I got caught up in the usual noon time mess down in that area of the City. The Travis County sheriff’s department was having a convention right in the middle of the street where some guy had a flat on his pick up truck, so I had to detour around it. Then when I finally got to this law office they were not ready for me. Apparently they had two angry as the devil people in there, obviously they were talking about splitting up the goods.

At any rate the wife suspected that I knew about this other woman, which I may have suspected. However if my boss was fooling around with another woman, which he probably was, he was not silly enough to tell any of us about it. I work for the man and a couple of divorces back he might not have been quite as careful, but at this point he does not tell any person about any thing that might put him in a compromising position. Now these lawyers were trying their best to get me to say that I knew stuff, but I only suspected things. I laughed at them when they tried to get me to speculate about what the boss was doing. It was not my job to draw conclusions.