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Like have computers hooked up to all their televisions. All my tvs are hooked up to computer. Just wanted to see if alot of people are doing it. Let's see a pic of your rig.

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i used to do it, before mediaplayers emerge. Nothing can beat simplicity and speed of a modern mediaplayer and win7 media player interface is total crap. Xbmc is nice though, still better to use mediaplayer to watch / stream movies over usb/network.

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i used to do it, before mediaplayers emerge. Nothing can beat simplicity and speed of a modern mediaplayer and win7 media player interface is total crap. Xbmc is nice though, still better to use mediaplayer to watch / stream movies over usb/network.

I am in the market for a media player but i don't know which way to go. Please can you give a suggestion of the good media player around

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I am in the market for a media player but i don't know which way to go. Please can you give a suggestion of the good media player around

Look at the Western Digital Live unit. I picked one up in the US for about $90.

It will play most media formats, including mkv, mov, wmv and the various camcorder mp4 and mt? flavours.All you have to do is supply the USB hard drive.

http://www.amazon.co...ords=wd tv live

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Like have computers hooked up to all their televisions. All my tvs are hooked up to computer. Just wanted to see if alot of people are doing it. Let's see a pic of your rig.

Why would I want to hook my computer up to my TV? Actually, I like to watch TV while I surf the net or otherwise work on my computer.

I bought a WDTV HD media player a while ago and haven't looked back since. Way better way to go than tying up your computer.

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I run a dedicated Xbmc machine linked to a HD wide screen TV and watch the BBC and listen to the radio on it.

The actual box has two RAID drives and is controlled via a remote control (or via a palm top if I'm fetching TV shows). See image for it's size; the box is open and you the size of the DVD drive

I run a dedicated Xbmc machine linked to a HD wide screen TV and watch the BBC and listen to the radio on it.

The actual box has two RAID drives and is controlled via a remote control (or via a palm top if I'm fetching TV shows). See image for it's size; the box is open and you see the DVD drive on top.

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i used to do it, before mediaplayers emerge. Nothing can beat simplicity and speed of a modern mediaplayer and win7 media player interface is total crap. Xbmc is nice though, still better to use mediaplayer to watch / stream movies over usb/network.

ditto. i got really tired of windows and its issues and went to wdtv live. neither a regret or a hassle since.

occasionally i plug the laptop in via hdmi to stream hulu or something, but rarely.

i need to start experimenting with xmbc. i fiddled about with it once, but had to reformat the machine before i got any real joy out of it.

i remember now why i nuked it. i got an addon script erro no matter what i tried to watch. still happening after reinstall

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I have a PC hooked up to the main TV running Media Portal which I think is better than XMBC. Also have a an unraid server on the network with about 20 terrabytes of storage. An unbeatable combination. I have a media player hooked up to the bedroom TV but still prefer the options a full PC gives on the main TV.

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I run a small network, using a D-Link DIR-655 router, with a 2TB Raid-1 NAS hardwired, my desktop hardwired, and my WD-TV Live connected via WiFi (at the other end of the house). I have copied every DVD I ever bought, from 100 baht Sukhumvit specials, to first-run HD titles, to TV series to the NAS, and can watch any of them on either my LCD flat screen, my computer, my Samsung 7" tablet (great in bed, when my wife is sawing logs, even my Android phone. Wife (or any guest) can watch anything at the same time.

Works for me.

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I used to own $100 wd tv live in the past, wasn't so happy. I use new xtreemer prodigy, which works flawlessly with everything I got. I stream movies from my 2 disk raid 1 Nas device.

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Some weeks ago, I looked for a media player too.

But ended with a cheap Android Tablet with HDMI as an DLNA/UPNP streaming-client .

Much more flexible, than a Media-Player.

Mainly for Internet TV-Streams, Internet-Radio, Youtube, downloaded movies, etc.pp.

I use it with a wireless mouse and keyboard in my bedroom.

It has an USB-Host connector, so I *could* connect an external HD/USB-stick too.

Only a few seconds to connect it to another TV, without even stopping the stream.

I have a 1TB external HD connected to my wifi-router, which also acts as an DLNA/UPNP Streaming server.

At the moment, I am testing XBMC for Android.

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Samsung Smart TV which streams direct from the UnRAID via MediaTomb but also got a PC connected to the telly for internet streams.

PC also runs Skype with camera on top of the TV and a wireless USB phone, makes Skype wife-friendly and I can see her lounged on the sofa rather than sat in front of the computer tongue.png

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

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I retired my old work laptop to become an home server running ubuntu. Tried xmbc but did not like it too much. Now just using vlc to play movies and tv-series, sometimes streaming internet radio and live tv.

Benefit of using an old laptop is that if I wish to do something with the PC, I can also use laptop screen without TV as well.

VLC in not the prettiest but it works well. When I got an Android phone, moved from IR-remote to use and Android application to control VLC.

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running xbmc on linux 64on32 here with a quite cheap nvidia 9400GT and vdpau (1-2% CPU usage with a c2d E8400 while playing 1080p), plugged into a samsung LED TV. I also have a cheap Xonar D1 in there that is *so*much*better* than onboard audio. I'm also using a mce IR remote (with lircd) and/or xbmc android remote. the machine is also used as a torrentbox/secured file server/build machine/ssh tunneling/jukebox.

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