Re: Can anyone get the connected home right?

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 >Why do you say that ...

'just that I couldn't see why you were so keen ... but now I can ...

mind you, 8 minutes times 800, equals still quite a lot ... 6400/60 =
about 5 days  ... must stop SWMBO buying any more ...

Chris



On 21 Jul 2007, at 22:10, Phil Harris wrote:

>> Phil -
>>
>> brilliant, many thanks ... have to say, I am coming around to the
>> idea of such a system ... previously, it seemed to me there was
>> nothing wrong with DVDs in a book-case & a home-cinema ... now
I
>> understand what you're after & we're aiming for something much
more
>> multi-media & multi-screen & about the house
>
> Why do you say that? The whole point of my DVDs going onto the
> server was
> that then they could be played at any time in any room of the house
> and by
> anyone that was in the house ... that was the whole purpose of the
> exercise.
> I had a DVD changer which was piped around the house and was
> excellent for
> use by one person but it couldn't play more than one disc at a time
> (obviously) so it wasn't suitable for multiple people in one property.
>
> If "they" (i.e. someone) was able to produce a DVD player
with good
> built-in
> audio and video processing and amplification, built in TV and radio
> tuner,
> proper PVR functionality, streamed media playback, the ability to
> rip discs
> to the network etc. then (ignoring price) I'd definitely be
> interested but
> since almost every consumer electronics item out there nowadays
> that is more
> intelligent than a kettle seems to have firmware issues of some
> kind then
> the chances of all that actually working properly is minimal
> bordering on
> none-existent. :-D
>
>> ... not least because we
>> seldom can agree on what to watch, and having a separate room for
>> watching seems less & less appropriate ...
>
> Yup - same here ... I rarely get to watch TV through the AV amp
> downstairs
> as Jo is usually watching her soaps and (un)reality TV cr*p so I
> either end
> up watching films in bed, in the "computer room" or in the
bath on the
> laptop.
>
>> 'quite like the fast reader for DVDs that Kaliedescape seem to
>> include ...
>
> The ripstation is a great idea but not unique to Kaleidescape ... I
> like
> that they've made the room players now able to rip to the server
> which is
> going to make adding new DVDs over time quite convenient. At the
> moment my
> "new" PC (Athlon X64 4000, 2Gb DDR, 250Gb SATA, DVD+/-RW and
> Windows Vista
> Business) seems to be ripping DVDs in about 5-8 minutes going by
> the last
> batch that I did on Thursday.
>
> Phil