This is what I would do:
1) Rip all the DVD's that I just wanted as films to an mpeg4 compressing (DivX/Xvid/...)
2) Store all the riped films on a file server attached to a hub and runing jlink.
3) Connect the Kiss player to the network and to the Plasma screen.
You can then play all the mpeg4 stuff you want, streamed off your file server. If you want menus, then just stick the DVD into the kiss player and view it that way.
Simple to do and you can do it straight away.. sorry for not making this more difficult...
Johnny.
Moving on to Intel hardware would have been the death of Apple... They should have move to *nix a bit sooner though!!
Intel hardware may be cheaper (as there is more of it manufactured), but it is bulkier and much louder than the hardware made by apple. If I want a nice dual machine running linux and microsof office applications, which I can leave on overnight without keeping me awake, then I have only one real choice and that is apple.
On the whole, apple hardware to me is the best thing about the machine. Now there is a decent OS running with thousands of apps available, I would find it hard to find a reason to by anything else.
Johnny.
P.s. I dont work for apple (unless they want to give me a job)
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This is what I would do: 1) Rip all the DVD's that I just wanted as films to an mpeg4 compressing (DivX/Xvid/...) 2) Store all the riped films on a file server attached to a hub and runing jlink. 3) Connect the Kiss player to the network and to the Plasma screen. You can then play all the mpeg4 stuff you want, streamed off your file server. If you want menus, then just stick the DVD into the kiss player and view it that way. Simple to do and you can do it straight away.. sorry for not making this more difficult... Johnny.
Moving on to Intel hardware would have been the death of Apple... They should have move to *nix a bit sooner though!! Intel hardware may be cheaper (as there is more of it manufactured), but it is bulkier and much louder than the hardware made by apple. If I want a nice dual machine running linux and microsof office applications, which I can leave on overnight without keeping me awake, then I have only one real choice and that is apple. On the whole, apple hardware to me is the best thing about the machine. Now there is a decent OS running with thousands of apps available, I would find it hard to find a reason to by anything else. Johnny. P.s. I dont work for apple (unless they want to give me a job)