hobbes79

I've taken the plunge and had my wife order one of these for my birthday

It can play pretty much any file you like, inc HD .mkv files. The final motivating factor was seeing Top Gear this season will be available in 720p for the first time.

It also has networking capability, and with an optional USB dongle, is wireless.

All that capability for $120 looks like a bargain. Anyone tried it? I'm really excited to get my hands on it

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Western+...=1218121172453

helwardman

I use my PS3 for all that stuff......wireless out of the box and simple to set up streaming from any pc

Bob

Looks nice.

I was looking at the Mvix Ultra for the 1080p and all the guff it can do like a built in torrent client, but touch pricey.

Need to add a wireless dongle though on top which is cheeky...

Burn1911

This thread is like a foreign language to me

Bob

geeky way to lazily download and watch shows on the tele...without faffing around with the old fashioned burning it to dvd approach

ain't technology lovely

BritishGuy36

I actually like the DVD approach.....burn a few shows to DVD+RW in about 3 minutes....play back on $40 DVD players, no network issues to crop up just when you don't want them and spoil your viewing experience.

Burn1911

Thank goodness I have hubby.... he would totally relate to all of this!!

chartreuse

I do the same thing with Tivo. It sees the other boxes on the LAN and pipes whatever's on them to the TV.

Bob

too much hassle with player not playing newer codecs all that well, or sync issues with the sound on the things....rewrite discs are rubbish too...

fatbrit

Will PS3 do MKV containers?

fatbrit

When you get bored, your search term is b-rad.

BritishGuy36

Sorry.....don't agree.....never had a single AVI that hasn't played perfectly in the last 3 or 4 years (since the folks who put up the torrents learned how to create them properly).

Rewriteable disks are the perfect medium for such shows, perhaps the ones you used were low quality. I buy Verbatim 8x speed ones for under $1 each and they are superb.

fatbrit

AVI are so yesterday!

TimberHut

I just link my PC to my TV via a HDMI lead.

Then set your TV to be your PC's 2nd monitor.

Drag anything you are playing onto your TV, mazimize it to full screen and it's job-done.

Why make life more complicated than it needs to be?

BritishGuy36

IYHO, maybe.