I reached out to SmashTV, but haven't heard back. I've been looking around trying to find a programmer for the chip, but it's kind of a nightmare to someone who's knew to all of this.
Would this programmer get the job done?
http://www.canakit.com/usb-pic-programmer.html
I tried searching this forum, other forums, and google for a tutorial on how to go about this and came up empty handed. Perhaps I should use one of the other chips that supports the projects?