When I was looking for a new TV earlier this year, DLNA was on my shopping list. As I got closer to buying my TV, I looked at DLNA more closely and it seemed a worthless four letter acronym. So worthless that I abondoned my research straight way.
What turned me off? No support for .ISO (got quite a few DVDs in ISO format), dodgy subtitle support, uncertainty about seeking within the file, and the general observation as slate above puts it so well regarding good DLNA clients "most TVs cant do nothing unless the server pampers it and convert everything to 1-2 formats that the TV can handle". My TV has a very capable media player for USB devices, and if I'm brave/foolhardy enough can be hacked so that it will treat CIFS/NFS shares as 'local' drives. If eventually this is not good enough, then I'll go towards a 'Popocorn Hour' solution (the videao equivalent of the squeezebox). BTW, I got a NAS about 7 years ago. It had a version of Twonky DLNA server on it, and so had 'iTunes functionality'. I started looking around as to how to use this, came across the 'Roku Soundbridge' and then quickly learnt about the SB3 and Sonos kit. I loved the design and what I read sound quality; I was also very impressed with the slim server software, even if that meant abandoning the NAS-as-music-server idea and having some sort of server. No regrets. Long live slimproto :) p.s. for what it's worth, Apple also seem to think that DLNA is a worthless pile of... -- chrisinparis ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chrisinparis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90063 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
