Streaming movies on your TV

tunner

Lads,
I was reading about the apple tv there earlier on and was considering getting one but not 100% sure that its worth it or how it works. I am looking for something that I can buy that will allow me to watch movies on my TV that would be new(or new enough!)


How do these things work?

Thanks in advance:rolleyes:

TUNNER

Keifer

Hi Tunner,

Apple TV is now quite cheap and could be an good option if you don't have a network TV. You can get a discount as a student on the apple website (you might know a student who could order it).

This works on my Sony Bravia 42W5500 with Lan cable port on side of TV.

Download PS3 media server to your PC or laptop. Connect your laptop to wireless network or via lan cable to your modem.

Assuming you have a network enabled TV enter the network settings from your modem into the tv network settings from the home button.

Run a LAN cable from your modem directly into the network port of your TV.

Launch the PS3 media software. The PS3 server should detect your TV and appear as an icon on the TV Home menu. From this icon you should be able to browse your laptop files from there. Locate a movie and click on it. It will buffer for a sec and then play. The HD tv also upscales files from the laptop e.g. DVD iso files to HD quality. It plays DIVX clearly also. Can also stream music from my laptop through Sony speakers. (Amazing quality sound on front s-surround sound).

It's a bit tricky to go but works a treat.

Enjoy trying.

sfag31

the wd tv live with a network adapter attached is a good option.
Best of all is a pc (a cheap one will do) connected to the pc.
all modern lcd tv's double as pc monitors.
win 7 mce has an addon called tunerfree mce coupled with onspeed will present all the english tv channels - live and on demand - in one place.
boxee does something similiar although that no longer seems to work.
win 7 mce offers a sky player and access to all sky on demand films - you'll need the sky number of someone that has sky multiroom. It works very well.

PogMoThoin

Don't buy anything Apple, You'll be kicking Yourself when You realize all the formats You can't play with it, they cripple all their products

tunner

sfag31 wrote: »

the wd tv live with a network adapter attached is a good option.
Best of all is a pc (a cheap one will do) connected to the pc.
all modern lcd tv's double as pc monitors.
win 7 mce has an addon called tunerfree mce coupled with onspeed will present all the english tv channels - live and on demand - in one place.
boxee does something similiar although that no longer seems to work.
win 7 mce offers a sky player and access to all sky on demand films - you'll need the sky number of someone that has sky multiroom. It works very well.

I have a Samsung LE32S81B lcd tv. The above option sounds OK. Could I do it with an old laptop? What would I need to do? I have NTL package with Broadband. Would it be feezing all the time?

Tunner

AntiVirus

Save yourself a lot of hassle and get the WDTV Live.

I have one 1 downstairs and 1 upstairs, both hooked up to my PC and it works like a dream!

tunner

AntiVirus wrote: »

Save yourself a lot of hassle and get the WDTV Live.

I have one 1 downstairs and 1 upstairs, both hooked up to my PC and it works like a dream!

OK if I have this right.... the WDTV live would allow me to watch movies from the internet on my TV via the WDTV?

Do I have to download them first or can I just log onto a website via WDTV and watch them or is it more like a harddrive?

one more Q. Where can I get one and how much are they?

Thanks to all who replied so far. Im getting there...


tunner

slegs

tunner wrote: »

OK if I have this right.... the WDTV live would allow me to watch movies from the internet on my TV via the WDTV?

Do I have to download them first or can I just log onto a website via WDTV and watch them or is it more like a harddrive?

one more Q. Where can I get one and how much are they?

Thanks to all who replied so far. Im getting there...


tunner

Only the WDTV Live Plus does the internet stuff plus everything the WDTV Live can do

http://www.wdtvlive.com/products/wdtv_live_plus#/highlights

The live is networked so you can access your PC harddrive or a NAS drive for stored movies along with external USB drives

EDIT: Internet streaming only works in US

tunner

So the WDTV Live just assists in playing movies you have saved in different formats?

Can you not watch streaming movies in Ireland from eg netflix or something?


Tunner

vibe666

the only way to not cripple yourself in one way or another and leave yourself open to use any online media available now AND in the future is to get a cheap nettop PC (like a netbook, but in a desktop format).

you can install boxee or xbmc on it which will allow you to do everything you want on it now, but because its a PC, if anything newer and better comes out, you'll be able to install that too.

i actually just use windows 7 on mine and have access to all the streaming sites like the rte player andall the uk ones and some of the US ones via online proxies as well as youtube etc. and all my locally stored movies and tv shows that i have at home.

they do lots of different models, but if you plan on playing back HD, you'll want a dual core atom based one with at least 2gb of RAM and nvidia iON gfx but thats still going to be less than 200 quid and it'll be the best multimedia investment you ever make.