For the best IP PVR experience it’s gotta be usenet. The grand daddy of the internet. Old skool, mofo. Many years ago work gave me a p90 with 8 meg of ram and a 4x speed SCSI CD. At the time I was lucky enough to be on UA cable so had free local calls. [...]

This article should tie up all our previous work with the sabnzbd+ suite of apps for Usenet automation. Massive shout to Steve over @ nzb.su for giving us kind permission to hack the shit out of his article on nzb.su & sabnzbd+ integration. You know what it’s like. Your sitting in the office and someone [...]

Now we SABnzbd installed, either on our media center or another PC in the house. We can take advantage of XBMC’s built in add-on for controlling our favourite usenet downloader. Launch XBMC and navigate to add-ons -> Get Add-ons -> XBMC.org Add-ons -> Program Add-ons and enable SABnzbd Come right out of the settings menu [...]

In the last guide we setup the TV side of our PVR. It’s now time to add some movie functionality to our PVR to achieve this we’re going to use Couchpotato. “CouchPotato is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a “movies I want”-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these movies [...]

Whats not to love about usenet? Don’t answer that. For those that don’t know usenet is like Facebook only useful. Here’s what wiki says “Usenet is one of the oldest computer network communications systems still in widespread use. It was conceived in 1979 and publicly established in 1980 at the University of North Carolina at [...]