Streaming video - my experience
#106
Re: Streaming video - my experience
I've just set up a Samsung BD-F8900 Blue-ray/HDD recorder ($430 locally - best UK price about $490) for a friend. This is one of the Samsung models with their Smart Hub software. It was easy to configure. You can change the DNS settings on the player and when this is done it is an easy task to reset the app store country from Australia to UK or US. You can only have one country active at a time, so if you want UK and US apps at the same time, you are looking at a 2 device setup. A fantastic piece of kit - if you want a locally sourced solution, then something with Smart Hub is the way to go
It was much easier to hack than the Roku 3
I may get the lower specc'ed (although Smart Hub enabled) BD-F6500, which I have seen as low as $126, and see if I can configure HBO Nordic
It was much easier to hack than the Roku 3
I may get the lower specc'ed (although Smart Hub enabled) BD-F6500, which I have seen as low as $126, and see if I can configure HBO Nordic
#107
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Re: Streaming video - my experience
Started to watch the 2nd episode with my lads last night. Fell asleep ten minutes into it and the lads abandoned it 10 minutes later because it was so crap.
#108
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Re: Streaming video - my experience
'Ive just set up a Samsung BD-F8900 Blue-ray/HDD recorder ($430 locally - best UK price about $490) for a friend. This is one of the Samsung models with their Smart Hub software. It was easy to configure. You can change the DNS settings on the player and when this is done it is an easy task to reset the app store country from Australia to UK or US. You can only have one country active at a time, so if you want UK and US apps at the same time, you are looking at a 2 device setup. A fantastic piece of kit - if you want a locally sourced solution, then something with Smart Hub is the way to go
It was much easier to hack than the Roku 3
I may get the lower specc'ed (although Smart Hub enabled) BD-F6500, which I have seen as low as $126, and see if I can configure HBO Nordic
It was much easier to hack than the Roku 3
I may get the lower specc'ed (although Smart Hub enabled) BD-F6500, which I have seen as low as $126, and see if I can configure HBO Nordic
#109
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I'm enjoying it
#111
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Thanks, will take a look. Going to need something new to watch because the last episode of Walking Dead is on today/tomorrow - Looks like they're constructing several good cliffhangers. Then it'll be the long wait for the next season.
#112
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We are currently watching "Life" with Damian Lewis.Also been watching some foreign films.Watched,The Hunt and After the wedding plus Remembrance.All very good.
#116
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/
Some of the best acting I've ever seen in a porno movie ever!
#117
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I didn't realise that he's a top musician and has been with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band since the '70s. Acting is a sideline for him
Last edited by Amazulu; Mar 31st 2014 at 9:22 am.
#118
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I started watching it but didn't really get into it. I watched "Blue is the Warmest Colour" on Netflix over the weekend:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/
Some of the best acting I've ever seen in a porno movie ever!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/
Some of the best acting I've ever seen in a porno movie ever!
No I didn't know that either, I think he's a pretty good actor to say he just does it as a sideline.
Guys you MUST watch The Bridge, I can't get across how good it is, please don't be put off by the subtitles, you don't even notice them after a while. Trust me.
Last edited by Molly Coddle; Mar 31st 2014 at 5:55 pm.
#119
Re: Streaming video - my experience
My wife and I watched this last night, it was very good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Edge_of_Life/
"Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses.
America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process.
Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Edge_of_Life/
"Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses.
America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process.
Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end."
#120
Re: Streaming video - my experience
My wife and I watched this last night, it was very good:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Edge_of_Life/
"Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses.
America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process.
Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode..._Edge_of_Life/
"Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses.
America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process.
Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end."