We use the PS3. Although, since we wanted a PS3 anyway, it was pretty much a no-brainer.
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amych - Dec 23, 2009 9:42:32 am PST #12053 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2009 9:43:20 am PST #12054 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I don't even know what the general price ranges are. How much for a decent non-PS3 Blu-Ray player?
Steph L. - Dec 23, 2009 9:52:33 am PST #12055 of 25501
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am so out of it tech-wise that I didn't know Blu-Ray players could play normal dvds.
I didn't know this, either! Nifty.
Atropa - Dec 23, 2009 10:14:43 am PST #12056 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That's that Pete will suggest.
Hee! It's true. But our PS3 is awesome.
DebetEsse - Dec 23, 2009 11:00:30 am PST #12057 of 25501
Woe to the fucking wicked.
We have the same. Although we still also have a DVD player, because it's better...somehow...It'll play files in many formats from a flash drive, and hooks into the surround sound...is, I think, what it is.
Gris - Dec 23, 2009 11:30:08 am PST #12058 of 25501
Hey. New board.
The LG BD390 is amazing, with very highly rated quality and almost every cool streaming feature available (excepting pandora sadly). It is now cheaper than a ps3, about 250. A perfectly decent blu ray player can be had for 150 I think - check cnet. I wanted the ability to play pretty much any video format over a wireless network from a networked hard drive, which the bd390 provides. Older blu Ray players had really slow load times which is annoying, so be on the lookout for that.
I ended up rejecting the ps3 because it lacks an infrared port, making universal remote use tough, and it's shape didn't really work, and it also lacked netflix streaming at the time.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2009 11:36:33 am PST #12059 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I wanted the ability to play pretty much any video format over a wireless network from a networked hard drive, which the bd390 provides.
In'eresting.
OK, what I now want (in addition to Blu Ray) is the ability to be browsing on my MacBook Pro, so when I find a really cool video I want to easily play it on my TV. IOW, can a computer be used to direct some other device (connected to my TV) to go out and find and play a specific video?
That is certainly theoretically possible, but it doesn't seem practical without the device connected to my TV also being a computer, and with me dong some coding to make it happen. Or am I wrong?
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 11:48:25 am PST #12060 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The features of the 390 sound sweet, but the web pages I read are so contradictory about the region-free hackability.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 11:50:06 am PST #12061 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
cocoa puffs:
when I find a really cool video I want to easily play it on my TV
If it weren't for the iSquint times, I'd be happy to convert everything for my AppleTV and view it there. As is, I need to reinvestigate the formats that my TiVo will use as the other method for getting video to my TV from my network.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2009 11:52:16 am PST #12062 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As is, I need to reinvestigate the formats that my TiVo will use as the other method for getting video to my TV from my network.
Ooh, I'd forgotten about TiVo. Actually sending something from a computer to a TiVo is simple (if the TiVo has WiFi), right? And a Mac can do it too, right?