I would add that another very cool thing about the WD TV Live media
players in particular is that some folks in the Netherlands have written
open source software called HDSync that allows you to network multiple
players for synchronized playback. It takes a little tweaking (it's
open source
Two quick comments on Jon's reply:
1. One of the advantages of the standalone media players such as the WD or the
Seagate FreeAgent Theater is that they will read hard drives in all the major
formats: NTFS (current PC), FAT (old PC), or HFS+ (Mac). Thus there need be no
issues with the FAT 4GB
Oops! Wrong subject line. I replied to the wrong thread.
On 2012-02-25, at 13:35 , Flick Harrison wrote:
The smart festival will just ask the exhibiting filmmakers to provide a
playback device which ships with their film, and charge a fee for the technical
time required to set it up and test
Just some notes to add to David's suggestions, I've done pretty extensive
research into this area and have found two great solutions. One is very
cheap, the other, expensive.
As David mentioned, the first is to stream the file off of a thumb drive
through a Blu-ray player. This method's ceiling
