Hi im looking for a media centre so i can plug it in to my tv thro hdmi and watch movies does any one know which ones are good and which format is the best quailty ? (hd)
Thanks all
I'm going to throw in the WDTV but I never heard of Xtreamer before, I will check that out Thommo...cheers.
WDTV has a lot of support and does more han what it officially says because there has been a lot of open source work on it. Not sure if Xtreamer has that support but I will chck it out.
does the WDTV play vob files and iso files do you know cause they dont seem to be listed
I suggest another path. Get a PS3 and stream content to it from another PC on your network.
This is what I do and it plays everything, every format. If there is a format that the PS3 doesnt handle itself, like MKV, the streaming program will convert it on-the-fly. I use PS3mediaserver, but you could use lots of others, like tversity.
The best part is you also get a blu-ray player and games console thrown in.
You can download and stream movies in true blu-ray format (M2TS) and stream them to get full quality 1080p HD.
it has its own forums and is the popcorn without the price tag, its also a networked media center like the popcorn, nas drive, external usb hard drive or add internal one, strwam from pc ect... it does it all. i believe the wdtv thingy is just a player and not a networked media player?
hi, ive been looking for a new media player and have come accross this one i think i quite like and wondered if anyone had one ? and if any good, its a
Sumvision Cyclone MKV 1080p HD Media Player Enclosure and heres a link to one of many places to get it from
Sumvision Cyclone MKV Full 1080p HDMI Network Media Player Enclosure - Retail Box - Ebuyer
this is the enclosure on its own and you can get it also with a 1.5tb hard drive already in for £160,
on the fly encoding reduces the quality of the movie, so if ur playing a mkv, ur not watching at the same quality that e.g. a popcorn will play it
make sure its a v2, otherwise you will have problems with dts
ithink this one is the v2 version, have you got one or used one ? would you advise people to buy one ?
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