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RE: HD media player - consensus on the best?



Thanks Dean,

I did use XBMC on my old original Xbox a couple of years ago. Might be
worth looking at again I guess - although I would like component output -
could buy an HDMI to component converter I guess.

What skin do you like best on it?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dean Barrett
> Sent: 06 April 2010 08:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
>
> I'm using XBMC too as well as the C200
>
> I have to admit it does work very very well !!
>
> I just stuck it on the PC I use for ripping stuff (new but nothing
> really
> fancy) to see what it was like and its now like a family friend :)
> Plays
> everything we chuck at it.
>
> If you go down that route, use something like Ember Media Manager to
> sort
> out your NFO files as XMBC/Plex etc. seem to do a rank job of getting
> the
> correct movie info :(
>
> Big benefit for me is that XBMC integrates into Control4 - so we can
> choose
> movies direct from the C4 GUI
>
>
> Dean.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 06 April 2010 07:47
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
>
> Thanks Ian - does that play HD well?
>
> Paul.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Ian Oliver
> > Sent: 06 April 2010 07:43
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HD media player - consensus on the best?
> >
> > In article
> >
> <564D52CC2069D44EB996CDEAD94D911E98F1753454@xxxxxxx
> > x
> > el.com>, Paul
> > Gale wrote:
> > > I guess this is impossible as everyone has their own
thoughts and
> > experiences on this and there
> > are a LOT out there - but, is there a consensus on which hardware
> > media players would be at the top of the list for quality,
features
> > and most of all UI usability?
> >
> > Acer Revo R3600, Linux, and XBMC.
> >
> > Ian Oliver
> > Sunny Leeds, UK
> > Using Java on Tini for control via Dallas 1-wire
> >
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