That's that Pete will suggest.
Hee! It's true. But our PS3 is awesome.
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Atropa - Dec 23, 2009 10:14:43 am PST #12056 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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?
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 11:56:44 am PST #12063 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually sending something from a computer to a TiVo is simple (if the TiVo has WiFi), right?
If you're running TiVo desktop, your computer shows up as a source in the listings. I just haven't added anything in there since I got the new computer. All it has in there is stuff I've copied off the TiVo itself.
I'm out of touch with what the Mac software will do. I need to look into that too.
Jon B. - Dec 23, 2009 12:09:52 pm PST #12064 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
TiVo Desktop is fussy about what formats you can download to the TiVo. I've been using pyTiVo instead of TiVo desktop which easily allows me to transfer most anything I ahem. The Mac version was ridiculously easy to set up.
§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 12:12:13 pm PST #12065 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been using pyTiVo instead of TiVo desktop which easily allows me to transfer most anything I ahem
Does it also allow you to transfer stuff off your TiVo and view it locally?