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.
> I'd like to put a small machine in that can stream from Hulu.com
> (and other
> Flash-based sites), iTunes (ideally), and a fileshare hosting .mp4
> and .avi
> files. If only the Wii would do this…
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?
> 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?
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