On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:14:32 -0600, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-Sep-2009, at 10:02, Roger Howard wrote: >> It's time to come up with a better way of delivering downloaded >> media to my >> living room - for the past year i've been loading avi's up on USB >> drives >> which plug in to my DVD player (USB port on front, DiVX support >> inside), or >> in a pinch hooking a laptop up to DVI->HDMI adapter and running >> straight >> through our TV. > > Apple just dropped the 160GB TV to $229. At that price it's a damn > tempting deal.
Absolutely, that's what has got me thinking again... > Ah, dunno if the TV does hulu, but I thought the Wii COULD do most > of this stuff. Course, it requires a softwood, but what doesn't? Wii does YouTube nicely, but doesn't do Hulu (no doubt because of Hulu, not the Wii). >> AppleTV is nice, but without Hulu and DiVX >> (last I looked) it's out of the question. Ideas? > > With some Terminal-fu and Perian I thought getting divx/xvid out of > the TV was pretty straight-forward? Is it? If it's still easily hackable (for some reason I thought only early generation ATVs were) then I may go that route... there's also the Mini - my main reason for looking past the Mini is cost - a decent Netbook is nearly half the cost, and right now I'm trying to conserve my peanuts as I have a lot of other projects in the works (restoring a Boston Whaler at the top of the list this month). -R _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
