Noulakaz
The blog of Avinash, Christina, Anya and Kyan Meetoo.
I’ve just bought a new Philips DVD-727K (K is for Karaoke by the way and, no, I don’t ever plan to use that feature :-)
It’s really a magnificent DVD player. The feature set is quite phenomenal : Progressive scan, Component video output, 54Mhz/12bit video DAC, 192kHz/24 bit audio DAC and DVD rewritable compatibility. Furthermore it plays everything : DVD, SVCD, CVD, VCD and even plain MPG files on a CD !
In one word, it’s great !
I’ve been busy programming lately. I’ve been working on a sort of Tivo Lite software which connects to Canal Satellite’s website, fetches the programme for all channels and advises about what to watch.
For the time being, things are going smoothly. I’ve done the first part of the application which fetches the TV programme and transforms it into nice XML. Now, I’ll work on the next part of the programme which is bound to be more challenging but also more interesting. Please find everything at Sourceforge. The programme is, of course, open source software.
Anya is growing quite rapidly now and in September something very nice will happen to her : she’ll have a little brother or sister…
Christina is getting on well. Most of the “nausees” have finished now.