DLNA - Philips

[arun1uk]

Anyone got any experience with DLNA? I'm talking specifically about streaming content from a PC to TV?

I was forced to take the Mrs shopping today. For me, it's one of the most hateful days ever, start of the sales and all...

Forget Rugby, you watch women during a sale and the men would run scared! So anyway, I said she could do what she wanted and I headed off to have a look around by myself. I wondered into an electronics store and managed to get an amazing deal. I didnt really need anything, I was just bored so thought I'd try my luck.

I got:
Philips 42" 9664 LCD TV - What Hi-Fi TV of 2009
PS3 250gb
NFS Shift and FIFA 2010 games
Dark Knight and Wolverine Blue Ray
PS3 Play (worth £60)
Panasonic HDMI cable (worth £50)

All for less than £1700. WOW. Now have a Pioneer Kuro KRL32V for sale if anyone is interested?

Anyone got the 9664 and had any issues with it, or with DNLA?

Cheers

[Bullett]

Yes.

I run Twonky at the moment on my PC although TVersity is also a good option. The PS3 just picks it up as a media player for photos, movies and music. Setup is pretty easy and there are plenty of guides out there as long as you are pretty computer savvy.

I'd recommend running a wired connection rather than wireless (although that works) and make sure both your media server (PC) and PS3 have fixed IP addresses.

It works well for the music and picks up covers and plays back a backdrop as well. Photos are also cool and movies and other videos work. Navigation is a little clonky but it works. For movies though I'm working on another project right now and using a Movie Jukebox (YAMJ) to get covers up on the PS3 via a web browser.

Couple of screen shots (the software was designed for Popcorn hour so it needs some tweeks to get working on the playstation) I didn't write it just installed and fiddled.

Homepage


Example movie page.

[arun1uk]

cheers Bullett looks like something I was planning on doing!

1 option was to use DNLA via the TV to connect to a PC, using windows media sharing, but I hate using anything microsoft related for media streaming etc. I think the PS3 option is good. I had a look at TVersity and it looks pretty smart.

Let me know how you manage to develop it further, I may be able to help...

[wiggy001]

I hate to shatter your illusions of a "good deal", but after 2 mins on Google you could've got all that for less than a grand!

[arun1uk]

wiggy001 said:

I hate to shatter your illusions of a "good deal", but after 2 mins on Google you could've got all that for less than a grand!

Really? So, all brand new, non-refurb products?

Show me where, and if you can prove it, I'll eat my TV.

I'm intrigued now.....