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HMV Grafton Street Reopening (Live music/Competitions/Discounts)

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    #92
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Hugh Cream wrote: »
    oh and buying a blu ray player in 2014 makes no sense at all, no matter how cheap it is..

    Oh dear.....

    Go on, explain...this should be good. Let me put some popcorn on first....


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    #93
    Tinie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭Tinie


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Oh dear.....

    Go on, explain...this should be good. Let me put some popcorn on first....

    Ever since I found out about Plex I have no need for Any dvds or blu rays. It costs about €20 in total to get a box to run Plex and assuming you have a laptop or android phone or Xbox or whatever, your all set. Its possibly the easiest and cheapest way to view films and the user interface is amazing for an open source program. Not to mention that bluerays are damn expensive to buy.

    Obviously a ten euro blue rah player is a bargain for non techie folk but if you have any tech experience then you probably already know about and are running Plex on some device.


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    #94
    ButtersSuki
    Registered Users Posts: 53,028 ✭✭✭✭ButtersSuki


    Tinie wrote: »
    Ever since I found out about Plex I have no need for Any dvds or blu rays. It costs about €20 in total to get a box to run Plex and assuming you have a laptop or android phone or Xbox or whatever, your all set. Its possibly the easiest and cheapest way to view films and the user interface is amazing for an open source program. Not to mention that bluerays are damn expensive to buy.

    Obviously a ten euro blue rah player is a bargain for non techie folk but if you have any tech experience then you probably already know about and are running Plex on some device.

    Ok......

    Well what if you want to watch something in 9.2, 7.1 or 5.1 surround sound?

    What if you want HD?

    What if you don't want to be waiting for something to buffer?

    What if you have a top notch tv and don't want to watch stuff in your laptop?

    What if you already have an extensive DVD and BR collection and want to watch those?


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    #95
    Tinie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,402 ✭✭✭Tinie


    ButtersSuki wrote: »
    Ok......

    Well what if you want to watch something in 9.2, 7.1 or 5.1 surround sound?

    What if you want HD?

    What if you don't want to be waiting for something to buffer?

    What if you have a top notch tv and don't want to watch stuff in your laptop?

    What if you already have an extensive DVD and BR collection and want to watch those?

    Plex can play files in true surround sound. Plex can play 1080p files. You hook up your Plex box to the TV via hdmi like a blue ray player. There's in no buffering if its on a home network. I have an big enough collection of DVDs but am in the process of shifting them to the parents gaff. No need for them anymore.


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    #96
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    Gonna pop in tomorrow and have a butchers


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    #97
    Metroid diorteM
    Registered Users Posts: 303 ✭✭Metroid diorteM


    Tinie wrote: »
    Plex can play files in true surround sound. Plex can play 1080p files. You hook up your Plex box to the TV via hdmi like a blue ray player. There's in no buffering if its on a home network. I have an big enough collection of DVDs but am in the process of shifting them to the parents gaff. No need for them anymore.

    I had a look and plex seems better setup for pirates than consumers tbh?

    I've no respect for people who would buy media until stealing becomes an option.

    I pay for digital media, but physical protects the consumer as well as the artist. Cloud media can disappear at the flick of a switch and sharing apps screw artists over.

    So don't slag Blu ray buyers please. We pay for the content pirates leech.


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    #98
    Hugh Cream
    Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭Hugh Cream


    The days of hoarding physical copies, weather it be CD, DVD or Blu Ray are gone.
    Streaming is the way ahead, weather it be on plex or through apple.

    But hey if you want to support little old hmv, the shop that ripped us off for years, and continue to do so, who am I to argue.


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    #99
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    Hugh Cream wrote: »
    The days of hoarding physical copies, weather it be CD, DVD or Blu Ray are gone.
    Streaming is the way ahead, weather it be on plex or through apple.

    But hey if you want to support little old hmv, the shop that ripped us off for years, and continue to do so, who am I to argue.

    Stop talking ****e


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    #100
    Jumboman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    What deal are they doing on blu rays ?


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    #101
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,079 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    It's not the same company, Hilco bought out both Xtravision and HMV last year and have redone them both as a hybrid store, this is not the old HMV and if I have to say that again I will appear out of your home screen and Grimm Reaper you, whom ever you may be.


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    #102
    noname123
    Registered Users Posts: 35 ✭noname123


    Tinie wrote: »
    Plex can play files in true surround sound. Plex can play 1080p files. You hook up your Plex box to the TV via hdmi like a blue ray player. There's in no buffering if its on a home network. I have an big enough collection of DVDs but am in the process of shifting them to the parents gaff. No need for them anymore.

    Just to say that the Blue-Ray player for 10€ yesterday is internet connected


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    #103
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,079 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Anyone is in the when they open today can you update here if the issue with accepting gift cards is over, please.


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    #104
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Anyone is in the when they open today can you update here if the issue with accepting gift cards is over, please.
    Have you heard of a telephone?


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    #105
    wes
    Registered Users Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Tinie wrote: »
    Plex can play files in true surround sound. Plex can play 1080p files. You hook up your Plex box to the TV via hdmi like a blue ray player. There's in no buffering if its on a home network. I have an big enough collection of DVDs but am in the process of shifting them to the parents gaff. No need for them anymore.

    I can stream stuff on my network, and watch Bluray/DVDs from my Bluray player. So a 10 euro bluray player would be worthwhile investment, even for some who primarily streams stuff from there home network, or the Internet. Not only do they get that stuff, they also get to play Blurays/DVDs.

    Physical media is not dead just yet, its certainly on its way out, but the fact remains that quality wise, Bluray is still better than what you can stream/download.


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    #106
    liddypool
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭liddypool


    I will pop in for a look but not expecting much if the damp squib of the Henry St reopening is anything to go by e.g less stock same prices


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    #107
    The Wild Bunch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭The Wild Bunch


    I like Dundrum HMV

    Fit staff ;)


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