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andrewduckerSo, I had a DVD player, and a Hauppage MediaMVP player, which allowed me to play MPEG files on my TV.
What it _didn't_ do was allow me to play AVI files, which was pretty sucky, as most things you download off of the internet are actually DivX or XVID based AVI files.
So I bought a Kiss DP-1500 DVD player with ethernet connection. It not only plays DVDs with DivX files on them, it plays them streamed off of a PC as well. Which is _perfect_.
The only thing it doesn't do is multiregion stuff. For that you need to put on a hack, which stops you having a warranty. I'd like to hang onto my warranty for the first year, at least, so I'm not willing to delve into the guts of the beast to play US DVDs. Especially when I only have about 6 of them anyway.
Instead, for the watching of Don McKellar's marvellous Last Night which Padmini, Fergus, Suze and Erin are coming round for tonight, we planned to sit on Ed's bed and watch it on his monitor. Less than perfect, I'm sure you'd agree, especially as the TV is both larger _and_ hooked up to a surround sound system.
Fortunately, I was hit by a brainwave last night, and so this morning I looked up the method of converting DVDs to XVID files, set it going and (5 and a half hours later) a perfect AVI file was spat out the other end, and plays perfectly through the DVD player on the TV. Hallelujah!
So far I have no issues with the player at all - the only thing I haven't played with much is the MP3 streaming, which I shall get round to over the weekend.
What it _didn't_ do was allow me to play AVI files, which was pretty sucky, as most things you download off of the internet are actually DivX or XVID based AVI files.
So I bought a Kiss DP-1500 DVD player with ethernet connection. It not only plays DVDs with DivX files on them, it plays them streamed off of a PC as well. Which is _perfect_.
The only thing it doesn't do is multiregion stuff. For that you need to put on a hack, which stops you having a warranty. I'd like to hang onto my warranty for the first year, at least, so I'm not willing to delve into the guts of the beast to play US DVDs. Especially when I only have about 6 of them anyway.
Instead, for the watching of Don McKellar's marvellous Last Night which Padmini, Fergus, Suze and Erin are coming round for tonight, we planned to sit on Ed's bed and watch it on his monitor. Less than perfect, I'm sure you'd agree, especially as the TV is both larger _and_ hooked up to a surround sound system.
Fortunately, I was hit by a brainwave last night, and so this morning I looked up the method of converting DVDs to XVID files, set it going and (5 and a half hours later) a perfect AVI file was spat out the other end, and plays perfectly through the DVD player on the TV. Hallelujah!
So far I have no issues with the player at all - the only thing I haven't played with much is the MP3 streaming, which I shall get round to over the weekend.
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