Re: audio video multimedia setup

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

Is this a harbinger of the future with a lot of the smarts being in the TV
itself?


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/technology/24media.html?ref=technology

"E. Lee Dickinson" <ltek1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>cj wrote:
>> looking at:
>>
>> 1. a great room
>> 2. 3 bedrooms
>> 3. kitchen
>> 4. office/den
>>
>>
>> wondering what kinda of audio video solution you guys would advise,
>> there will be a touchpad in each one to choose a movie or archived tv
>> show, also a live satellite feed for watching live tv.
>>
>> im wondering if i should go big ass dvd player or a highend multimedia
>> computer with massive hdd space.
>>
>> going to control it all from the den with just drop feeds to each room.
>>
>> any suggestions/links.
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>I am using D-Link media players (one of the SD ones, and two HD ones)
>in my bedrooms and living room.  The server is a WinMCE computer in the
>kitchen, with all movies ripped to .vob files, and the MCE machine
>handling tv recordings, and serving music and other content.
>
>It works *fairly* well.  I am not using the server software that came
>with the dlink boxes -- instead, I am using Tversity
>(www.tversity.com).  With the addition of Cidero, I can start and stop
>and cue up any media on any box from any PC. Might have to develop a
>touch screen interface for my old audry's, but really the remote
>control that comes with the DSMs has been just fine.
>
>The issues I am having are some bad VOB encodes, and the 4gb file size
>limitation that tversity has. Can either compress movies using DVD
>shrink, or split them into 4gb chunks, which has been what I've been
>doing.  This causes about a 1 second pause towards the end of most
>movies.
>
>E. Lee Dickinson
>Entertainment Design and Technology