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Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:15 pm
by Evil Matt
There are five guys in my house and we all download a lot of movies and stuff. We're looking for a way to play them on our television. A friend of mine used to do it with his Xbox, which hooked into the network and could play movies off of people's hard drives. That would be perfect for us, and a used Xbox would be pretty cheap right now, but do we have to buy a game console just to do this? Don't they have networkable DVD players or something?
Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:47 pm
by Chewi
I gather it takes a bit of work (never tried myself) but this project is pretty awesome. People tend to use very small PCs for it but Linux being Linux, you could use all sorts. You won't find anything as featureful as this.
http://www.mythtv.org
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:12 am
by Evil Matt
Featureful is nice but I was hoping for something that works out of the box.
MythTV looks nice. It reminds me of my friend Ben. He hooked up a huge HDTV as a PC monitor and got a TV tuner card, and a bunch of emulators. He picked up a gyroscopic mouse for a remote, so he can sit across the room and use his TV/PC/stereo/console. It looks better than an average television, but I understand he paid a bit for it.
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:34 am
by Matt
Would a TV card and some extra long cable not do the trick?