Anyone got a wireless media player?
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that essentially my PC does all the tasks I reuqire from a DVD recorder whilst reading a review of a handful of wireless media players. I use a Pinnacle ShowCenter...
It streams photos and most movie and music formats and plays Internet Radio. It can be hardwired over the LAN but mine is running over a 402.11g wireless network.
It comes with Media Server software (a media library) which runs on my main PC. The software allows you to add / remove stored photos, music, movies, etc. When the ShowCenter is switched on, the Media Library stored on the PC is displayed on the TV. Just navigate, select and play.
I have a progressive scan DVD player beneath the TV so I have never needed to try streaming DVD from the PC to my TV using the ShowCenter - I don't think it can be done. I suspect you would have to rip the DVD to DiVX / MPEG first.
Last time I looked they were a couple of hundred quid to buy - may be cheaper now..
In hindsight, if I was to try and achieve a similar result now, I would probably go for a Shuttle or dedicated media PC, stick it under the plasma and run Windows Media Centre. A mate has this and its the nuts...
edit: to add piccy
>> Edited by SS2. on Friday 13th January 12:23
It streams photos and most movie and music formats and plays Internet Radio. It can be hardwired over the LAN but mine is running over a 402.11g wireless network.
It comes with Media Server software (a media library) which runs on my main PC. The software allows you to add / remove stored photos, music, movies, etc. When the ShowCenter is switched on, the Media Library stored on the PC is displayed on the TV. Just navigate, select and play.
I have a progressive scan DVD player beneath the TV so I have never needed to try streaming DVD from the PC to my TV using the ShowCenter - I don't think it can be done. I suspect you would have to rip the DVD to DiVX / MPEG first.
Last time I looked they were a couple of hundred quid to buy - may be cheaper now..
In hindsight, if I was to try and achieve a similar result now, I would probably go for a Shuttle or dedicated media PC, stick it under the plasma and run Windows Media Centre. A mate has this and its the nuts...
edit: to add piccy
>> Edited by SS2. on Friday 13th January 12:23
I have a Dlink media lounge it can either be wired or used on a wirless network. I use it to stream video and photos to my plasma it can also play internet radio.
I have found it easy to set up and quite simple to use, however it does not work well when you have a large amount of data dropped into the dlink folder on your PC, I have 160 gigs of music, and as soon as you ask the dlink to read the folder it just falls over.
I have since bought a Sonos system which is absoloutely brilliant, to sort out my music problem, I now just use the dlink for video and pictures and it works well.
I have found it easy to set up and quite simple to use, however it does not work well when you have a large amount of data dropped into the dlink folder on your PC, I have 160 gigs of music, and as soon as you ask the dlink to read the folder it just falls over.
I have since bought a Sonos system which is absoloutely brilliant, to sort out my music problem, I now just use the dlink for video and pictures and it works well.
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