rolling thread of specific product recommendations u punks

rolling thread of specific product recommendations. i'm sick to fuck of buying crap that doesnt do what i wanted

Can you recommend a thread where I can find specific product recommendations. Thanks in advance

currently im on the hunt for:

a cheap solution for getting my movies to my tv from a hard drive- i got one of these recently and it didnt work and connecting the laptop sucks and streaming to the xbox sucks

rechargable/portable bluetooth speakers (quality doesnt have to be amazing but id want compatibility with a wide range of phones/devices)

anything else you think is a cool device also gladly received imo

xp dayo ya it's here np

a) you can get various western digital set top units from around $60+, named like wd live and wd play and wd tv live and soforth -- don't quite know the difference between them but they all seem to have usb ports and you can just use a thumb drive or the like, or if you plug them into the network and have enough bandwidth i think you can play directly from your drive.

any idea what's the difference btwn one of those and say:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/VonHaus-Designer-Habitat-Player--Digital/dp/B005ERNITE/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1385950240&sr=1-1&keywords=multi+media+players

^ would a usb drive need external power to work with this etc?

otherwise yeah the WD brand stuff seems the accepted solution

Is it a portable USB hard drive with just a USB cable or does it also have a power supply

no external power supply

Then probably wouldn't need an external power supply

You could also look at a Roku. Everybody loves them

I have been using a similar player to that, an Incredisonic that cost me £20, decent little device but it wont play MKV's. I don't think there would be any problems connecting a larger portable drive to it rather than a memory stick.

thks dsp- there's prob those out there that support mkv i'd imagine though- mate of mine thinks a raspberry pi or minix with a network adapter could do a job here, i'm intiruged but if thirty quid buys it all done for me i'd rather plump for that

dayo- can a roku play from a hard drive though? streaming direct from internet isnt something i've done much of and im not sure what services we even get over here to make it useful tbh

It can but if your primary service is to play off a hard drive then it's probably not best suited as the Roku is streaming first

The main thing I would worry about is file compatibility + flexibility. I have a lot of files with subtitles / multiple audio tracks so I need something like VLC on an actual computer

A lot of blu-ray players have USB ports and play stuff off of USB fingers and HDs. Could kill two birds with one stone

buying a bluray player sounds like generating a bird tbh

hmmm minix g4 looks like it could be a goer but would it connect to a 1tb hdd i wonder hmmmm

I have a Roku 3, running an external HD/thumb stick wasn't a good solution - Roku is somewhat limited on native file types.

I use Plex - server on my desktop, wired to the router via ethernet, Roku 3 Plex client also connected to router with cable. Wireless degraded the image quality a bit, but I'm using an older Apple router, new 802.11ac routers should have plenty of bandwidth for HD video.

Works great for me, 1080p files look as good as Blu Ray, but it's an entirely different option.

on the other question i noticed monoprice has some nice rechargeable bluetooth speakers. dunno how good they are, but their stuff always seems decent and pretty cheap: http://www.monoprice.com/Category?c_id=108&cp_id=10823&cs_id=1082705

I have a WDTV Live. It lets me play pretty much any format of video from a USB drive (my collection is mostly mkv and mp4) and because I've got it plugged in to my home network I can stream from a standard upnp share. It also lets me use spotify, netflix, play podcasts direct from the rss feed and a bunch of other things.
Any attached drives appear as a standard share on the network so I can copy files to and from it while it's still plugged into the TV also it lets me view films stored on it on my iPad.

a cheap solution for getting my movies to my tv from a hard drive- i got one of these recently and it didnt work and connecting the laptop sucks and streaming to the xbox sucks

i've found xbox streaming works really well. but why not just connect an external hd to your xbox if it's a prob?

Yeah darragh have you ever tried this before

http://xbmc.org/

on a similar tip tho, what do you all use for watching non-apple videos on your ipad? or saving them onto it? there's a good app for streaming but i can't find a converter that doesn't take hours to change the format.

I believe VLC is available for ipad

Yeah I've got a WDTV Live and it's great, it'll do exactly what you want to do and it has Netflex, iPlayer etc. No Lovefilm or 4OD yet, annoyingly.

And yeah it'll play pretty much any format off my external hard drive/USB drive.

To watch films on the iPad from the wdtv-attached HD I use a network browser app called FileBrowser which can play the mp4 ones directly or it will create a streaming URL that you can c+p into VLC to view the mkv files.

Also you can just copy any video file via iTunes into VLC and it will play them (well I know that mkv, avi and mp4 work). This assumes your iPad has enough power to play it. HD mkv files just don't work well on older iPads.

Yeah there are a bunch of programs that will stream stuff to your iPad. There's AirVideo or something called that I think, Stream To Me + Serve To Me, others I'm sure, and they'll all use your computer to make conversions on the fly. Video quality will vary

I've wanted to start a lame thread detailing things I've purchased after they were mentioned by ilxors.

So far:
- Tea tree oil toothpicks (awesome)
- zojirushi rice maker (it plays songs at me)

uhh some other stuff I've forgotten

thks for ideas since all

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00CD3IDFG/ref=ya_aw_oh_pit

Do the business.

Ok so I have a mac and I have a bunch of high quality video of speakers talking. The video from the camera is MTS and MPG files, and it is chunked into 30 min segments becaue that is what the camera does. The audio has a crappy ground hum throughout.

imovie sucksssss and is terrible.

Here is want I want to do: join all the video, crop the very start and end junk out, _and_ extract the audio to a wav of whatever, so I can fix it in audacity and notch out the noise, then merge the new audio back in, then convert it so it can be uploaded.

What program should I use (not imovie!)

:/ given the thread title I was hoping this would be all about the best little jacket spikes and hair dye.

given the starter you knew well enough

Just got in on that Amazon Prime deal for $72 yesterday. If I'm looking to use mostly Netflix and Amazon Instant Video, am I better off with a Fire TV or a Roku 3?

(Writing off Chromecast and the various stick options because I'd rather use wired ethernet vs. wifi)

I have a fire stick and it's pretty good. But I'd probably go for the roku since it's not pushing a specific service. Easier to search everything.

NUC5PGYH en route

This was actually a p quick purchasing decision for me. Normally I enjoy weighing up and researching options long enough for the tech to change in interim.

I have settled into very satisfied ownership of the above, this month's salary funding a RAM and SSD upgrade. Solves media storage/playback, is the house PC, stream live sports completely legally, etc.

Now what else do I need.

Much thanks to excellent ilxor wins for taking the time to suggest an avenue via which I might watch the new twin peaks.

It is no fault of his own goodself that the free trial into which I am now 43 mins has been one of the most laughable and unbelievable service experiences of my life.

I hope they've either launched a fuck the thick paddy version of a fuck the free triallist version separate to what ppl get in the UK because this steamer is 100% amateur embarrassing shite

one year passes...
NUC5PGYH en route

This was actually a p quick purchasing decision for me. Normally I enjoy weighing up and researching options long enough for the tech to change in interim.

― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 01:44 (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one year passes...
I have settled into very satisfied ownership of the above, this month's salary funding a RAM and SSD upgrade. Solves media storage/playback, is the house PC, stream live sports completely legally, etc.

Now what else do I need.

― D'mnuchin returns (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 June 2017 11:10 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ive purchased a mi android tv box to do most of this but tbh ive no idea why

capitalism iirc