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Genvideos

Dodgy as f**k, has some annoying ads, and some of the movies are poor quality but there are some good ones in there too

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Good show

Another top C4 series is The Saboteurs - a UK/Norwegian production about the effort to stop the Nazis getting the atomic bomb. What a story

The only problem with 4oD is the ads and the fact that their app is a buffering pile of poo. Okay on Windows though

The Interceptor on BBC iplayer

Banshee on Amazon Prime who also have Catastrophe a US/UK comedy starring Sharon Horgan

Series 4 of Episodes on iplayer

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Thanks, good tips-offs. :thumbup:

My lads use Kodi to watch virtually anything they want. Much better than anything else I've seen. :thumbsup:

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I've just got one of these:
Ainol Mini PC Windows 8.1 64 bit Intel Z3735F 7000mAh Bluetooth 4.0 32GB TV Box Black

An incredible gadget - a full Win 8.1 PC the size of a mobile phone including a 7000mAh battery

Planning on setting it up with kodi as a mini-HTPC

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I like that! :thumbup:

We have an Acer Nettop attached to our telly with a mini wireless keyboard and mouse and it works a treat, but what you've bought is the next generation complete with a handheld keyboard/remote control. It's cheap too :cool:

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Do you actually find a use for such things?

I mean, I've had a PC connected to the TV before, wireless keyboard, etc. but I've never found they get used for anything more than running some form of media centre (eg xbmc(kodi, spit)) and for user interaction you want either a remote, or a tablet (as a second screen).

I've never found anything more 'PC' ish needed - so something like a chromecast (essentially dumb) or a RaspPi2 (low power) are enough.

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One of the big advantages of a HTPC is that you can have everything in 1 box. On one of my TVs I have an Amazon Fire TV for Prime, Netflix and Hulu, a Samsung BR with SmartHub for UK streaming and a WDTV for ABC and a link to my Media Server. With a HTPC (booting into kodi) you can have all of that in one device. Match that up with a Logitech K400r keyboard and you're looking good. So many devices now - Roku 3, Chromecast etc - have hard-coded DNS, so a DNS redirect on your router is required and I have never had great success with that

A $100 Win8.1 HTPC is the way to go

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How do you find the time to get through all the content on all these devices?

I have Stan and I can't even get to watch all I want to on that.

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I got mine before all the Rokus, etc entered the market. As Amazulu has said it's everything in one box. Until recently I had a Skype phone attached to it. I also have a webcam attached which is great for family web chats where we sit in comfort on our sofa viewing our 59" screen making the others as large as life as if they're sitting in our lounge with us. We also use it to easily access and view our photos and to use the ABC iViewer, SBS, BBC iPlayer, 4OD, Netflix (all regions), Youtube and everything else. So much easier than faffing around with half a dozen remote controls to fight with crap interfaces. Can even use it for general browsing - when push comes to shove. :thumbsup:

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I bought an i5 Intel NUC as a media machine. Probably a bit over specced TBH, but I slapped in a decent SSD as well. It sits silently next to the TV and I can use it to stream movies etc from the media server wirelessly.

Mini PC: Intel® NUC

I often find myself using it as a PC with a huge screen - Wireless keyboard and mouse complete it - it's nice to sit comfortably and browse/do my banking/update my CV etc etc.

I also plugged in a USB powered DVD drive for watching the remaining DVDs I can't be bothered to rip.


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I don't. I have too much that I want to watch but never get round to it

1-2hrs in the evening and maybe a few movies on the weekend. I watch more when travelling. For instance, on the flight back from Manchester a few weeks ago, I watched series 2 of Utopia on my tablet and hardly used the seat-back console

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If anything indicates that the era of 'traditional' TV is coming to an end, the move by Clarkson and Co to Amazon is it

The stars of the world's most popular non-drama TV show, a show produced by one of the world's most respected, quality media organisations, the BBC, moving to a rising streaming service from the biggest internet company around is huge - a seismic shift IMO

Awesome

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My first realisation was only recent as well.... probably 3 or 4 months back, when I saw that Lilly Tomlin, Jane Fonda and co terrific drama/comedy on Netflix.

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I've kind of been pushing the idea that the world, she was a changing, for a few years now - and that streaming from individual producers on a global scale was the future. Certainly back in March when I suggested the Beeb were being idiots in their handling of the Clarkson issue and that the three would go to one of the global IPTV, and in the process damn the licence fee to destruction in the charter negotiations. Channels, as we know them, are going away. Most will not survive.

The really interesting question is what opportunities will arise during the transition, and what will come after. People only have so many hours they are willing/able to give to entertainment - and recorded visual media (such as TV) is only one of many diversions. We've had only a few templates for such media (films, serials, one offs, cartoons, snippets, etc.) and we have relatively poor mechanisms for finding what we might like at any particular time. Let alone the interactive question.

I do wonder if the VR immersion in a personally tailored world is the eventual endpoint - kind of like the holodeck....

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Edit : Oh, and it looks like Quickflix is getting bought out :
http://www.smh.com.au/business/media...0150730-gini7b
Netflix maybe, or Amazon Prime (who need to sort a way of flogging Top Gear to the global masses)...

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Thats my problem actually, I get more enjoyment out of tinkering (snigger) with my devices than I do watching shows.

To be honest, if anyone can't find enough entertainment for a few months or even a year solely on SBS catch up, then they're not looking hard enough. SBS alone is probably the best catch up service I've seen. 500 movies or something on there.