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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.?"

6 of 381 comments (clear)

  1. Xbox + XBMC all you need by systimax · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.xboxmediacenter.de

  2. Myth(TV) by Perrin7 · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.mythtv.org

  3. My setup by grub · · Score: 5, Informative


    Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/TV out (composite & svideo). A coax line runs composite -> the TV in line of my receiver.
    Audio: Audigy 2 card with coax running from the SPDIF connector to the receiver's digital TV in.
    To control it all: an ATI Remote Wonder remote control. It works by RF with ~10M of range so the source computer makes its noise in another room.

    The Remote Wonder works well under Linux and MacOSX although you may have to google for drivers.

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  4. The most obvious solution works just fine. by arbi · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a networked computer in my living room with these things plugged into it:

    1) TV
    2) Stereo
    3) Wireless Keyboard / Mouse

    It works. I'm really not sure what the issue is here. :P

  5. Airport Extreme by Gannoc · · Score: 5, Informative


    For $130, you can plug it in anywhere in your house, and play anything that iTunes can play from any computer. As a bonus, its also a 802.11g extender and printer server.

  6. Squeezebox by jallison · · Score: 5, Informative
    For audio I use a Squeezebox [http://slimdevices.com/]. This is an 802.11 gizmo that allows you to stream music from computer to stereo. Works well.

    I've not conquered the video thing yet. I like the idea of having easy access to the digital media, but I don't like the idea of having a computer in the family room. Computers go in the office, where there's a desk and a proper work environment.