RE: Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows Client, Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adrian,

I've been playing about with various media centre products for more years
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ow than I care to mention - many of which have bit the dust and stopped
bei=
ng worked on years ago (even though I bought licences for them) and many
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re I've forgotten the names of. I had an original xBox that I bought to
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XBMC on when that first hit the light of day.

Mark's favourite - Plex - was a great example ... when it came out it
looke=
d lovely with it's nice backgrounds and smoothly scrolling menus (hell, I
b=
ought a Mac Mini to try it on) but it was an absolute dog to use - I
couldn=
't work out which way you had to go to get to menu options (or more
importa=
ntly to get out of menu options) and it was just unusable IMO. Now I know
M=
ark has stuck with Plex, loves it and thinks it's the greatest thing since
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sliced bread but I don't have four years to wait for a bit of software to
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ature into something that's usable.

Decent PVR integration would be cool but at the end of the day you're not
g=
oing to get support for Virgin cable or Sky on there so it's already a
poor=
substitute IMO.

Basically I just want something that works and I don't want to have to put
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my TV on to play a piece of music or listen to some internet radio ...
mind=
you - no matter what you do people are never happy.=20

Phil




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Adrian Eaton
> Sent: 31 October 2011 12:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows
> Client, Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients
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> Hi Phil,
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> I=E2=80=99m surprised you say complicated to use. It takes a little
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> configure where your media is stored and setup networking in some
cases
> but other than that it is a menu with music video etc and then select
> the album you want to listen to. My experience is mainly with XBMC
> rather than the other ones you mention but XBMC has always been easy
to
> do the basics and very reliable in my experience.
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> My biggest annoyance is the lack of integration with a pvr system (I
> use NPVR which is  based on GBPVR). I want one easy to use fast system
> to watch tv/movies/music when I want, on whatever platform I want.
> XBMC/mythtv is one route but not seamless yet AFAIK. You either have a
> great media player or a great pvr and the other part is pretty
useless.
> We are heading in the right direction but slowly. The same extends to
> Home automation as well which doesn=E2=80=99t seem to be integrated
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media
> playing or PVR=E2=80=99s.
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> I=E2=80=99m with you on the lack of inclination to mess around though,
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> needs to be reliable and work at the expense of features IMO.
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> Adrian
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 30 October 2011 13:42
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows
> Client, Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients
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> What gets me with things like Plex and Boxee and all the other media
> front ends that I tried before them is they all end up being so damn
> complicated to use and try to be all things to everyone. (I have no
> desire to browse the internet on my TV, nor do I want to search
YouTube
> using an IR remote (my laptop has HDMI if I want to do that), nor do I
> want to have to turn on my TV to listen to Internet Radio or Spotify
(I
> can do that from other more appropriate devices).
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> I don't have the inclination to mess about with such things when I get
> home (hell, I spend all day doing it) which is why the PopcornHour
C200
> does it for me - OK it would be nice if it had a nice Apple like GUI
or
> even a funky iApp interface to control it and browse your movie
> collection - but "it just works" :-D
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On
> Behalf
> > Of Simon Haslam
> > Sent: 30 October 2011 13:31
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows
> > Client, Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients
> >
> > There's a Linux port in the "labs" area on the Plex
website
> > http://labs.plexapp.com/labs/ -
only x86 I think. I'd really like to
> > run it on a Buffalo Linkstation NAS (ARM/Kirkwood) but couldn't
find
> > any plans for that.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Mark Gardner <mark@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:mark%40thegardners.me.uk>
>
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2011, 13:12
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows
> > Client, Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients
> >
> >
> >
> > Sounds good - does it mean that you no longer have to have a Mac
to
> run
> > Plex?
> >
> > The PMS (incredible choice of name that...) runs on Windows if I
> > recall.
> > So Windows PMS and Windows Plex Client =3D no mac? (fingers
crossed -
> > Windows and Ubuntu shop here)
> >
> > M
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
] On
> Behalf
> > Of Mark McCall
> > Sent: 29 October 2011 12:01
> > To: Ukha_D@xxxxxxx <mailto:Ukha_D%40Yahoogroups.Com>
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Laika Revealed - Plex Gets Official Windows
Client,
> > Cloud Sharing, Plus New OSX & Mobile Clients
> >
> > Our love affair with Plex continues - it's the media centre that
just
> > keeps on giving!. After another suspiciously quiet spell from the
> > team,
> > they have just revealed a huge raft of new features to the
platform.
> > The highlights include an official Windows Client, MyPlex Cloud
based
> > media sharing plus all new desktop and mobile clients too.
> > Check out the videos....
> >
> > http://autoho.me/t8an5u
> >
> > M.
> >
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