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How Do You Handle Home Media?

Posted by timothy on from the one-bit-at-a-time dept.

carpoolio writes "Yahoo's Tech Tuesday has an interesting series on bridging the PC/home entertainment gap. The solutions are fairly complicated, and very Windows-centric. As I store more media on my PowerBook, I'm finding more ways I can't listen to or view it on my stereo and TV. One example: TiVo Desktop won't stream AAC files - only MP3s - from iTunes to TiVo. That's an easy fix, but still: how do you get stuff off of your computer and onto your TV, stereo, etc.?"

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  1. I agree this stuff is still too complicated ... by xmas2003 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a fairly complex halloween decorations and christmas lights setup (includes X10 controls for the lights and a webcam), but I leave the VCR programming up to my wife.

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  2. How do I handle my home media? by TimmyDee · · Score: 1, Funny

    Very carefully. That shit's expensive.

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  3. Re:One fix.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Damn fucking moderators need to take it in the ass for once.

  4. Stop coveting it. by torpor · · Score: 2, Funny


    The 'net is your hard drive. Delete, I say. Let the winds blow to you what they will.

    You don't need 8gigs of TV show. It isn't actually doing you any good to hoard all this so-called 'valuable content'. Some would consider it a kind of cancer ...

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  5. Re:"Out" cards by mrchaotica · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just seems like people are making this needlessly complex. But then, maybe that's the way we slashdotters like it...?
    Ah, now you're getting it!

    There's a saying out there that goes something like this: "Every program will expand in scope until it becomes a framework." This is the same deal -- "Every home theatre solution will expand in scope until you can play a movie in the living room while sitting on the toilet." To do otherwise just wouldn't be geeky enough!
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  6. Re:Xbox + XBMC all you need by Armando_Mcgillicutty · · Score: 2, Funny
    "We really got to thank Microsoft for the Xbox!"

    I never thought I'd see a statement like that on /.