Well, you have to have SOMETHING to rip torrents from... -sc
> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 9:58 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: playing video on TV from external storage device > > DVD/BD is dead ;) > > http://www.asus.com/Multimedia/Digital_Media_Player/OPlay_HD2/ > > -- > Peter van Houten > > On the 12/09/2011 15:23, James Rankin wrote the following: > > Looking for a few recommendations here. > > > > I have a load of episodes of children's TV (Fireman Sam and the like) > > stored on my external hard drive and also on my home NAS device. I'd > > like a quick and easy way to be able to play these on my TV. The > > solution I have at the moment is simply to connect my laptop to the TV > > and run the videos from the computer to the VGA output on the TV, but > > this is a) dangerous, as my seven cats regularly scuttle past the > > laptop and could bring it crashing to the floor, and b) far too > > technical a setup for my wife to put together for the kids herself > > when I am out of the house. > > > > Is there some sort of device I could purchase that could have a USB > > device plugged into it, and would then be able to deliver the content > > to my TV, or can you just get (for example) DVD players that accept > > USB drives or the like now? (I'm way out of touch with home tech, > > please forgive me). Or is there any other quick and dirty way I could > > deliver these videos so that it's easy for my other half (she is a > > complete technophobe)? > > > > All ideas and sharing of own configurations welcome, thanks! > > > > > > JR > > > > -- > > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put > > into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am > > not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that > > could provoke such a question." > > > > ****** IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER ***** > > > > This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is > > addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously > > addressed to you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean > > to send it to you. 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