Boxee is a good option. Also looking at netgear's newest... http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertainment/DigitalMediaPlayers/EVA8000.aspx
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Robert Martin Jr. <[email protected]>wrote: > Most user friendly would probably be any half decent box or mini-itx with > TV-Out running windows version of Boxee and a cheap MCE remote. Boxee can do > hulu and lot of other sites. Next in line would be PC running bootable XBMC > with plugins for various sites. > > If you're lucky enough to already have a networked DVD player you can > purchase Playon for $39 one time fee, and run just about every streaming > website through your player. I do this with an Avel Linkplayer2 and can > watch everything. I frequently watch netflicks, hulu, ScyFy and Crackle > sites without any problems. Keep in mind you do need a decent server to run > the playon software since all encoding is done on the fly. I'm running it on > a quade core mini-itx XP x64 system. > > lopaka > > --- On Wed, 9/9/09, G.Waleed Kavalec <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: G.Waleed Kavalec <[email protected]> > Subject: [H] hdtv and web channel hookup > To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 8:01 AM > > My wife and I are looking at a Samsung 40" HDTV (UN40B7000 probably) and > I'd > like to be able to easily toggle into various web channels now available. > What is the easiest (and most spouse friendly) way to do this? I have > Comcast for both TV and Internet, and I'm open to dedicating a PC to the > job. > > -- > -- > > Gregory Waleed Kavalec > --------------------------------------------- > What matters?... > Only the flicker of light within the darkness, > the feeling of warmth within the cold, > the knowledge of love within the void. > — Joan Walsh Anglund > -- -- Gregory Waleed Kavalec --------------------------------------------- What matters?... Only the flicker of light within the darkness, the feeling of warmth within the cold, the knowledge of love within the void. — Joan Walsh Anglund
