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Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

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Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Nick Molnar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:43:02 -0000

As a (current) college kid, I've gone the last few years using my mac(s) as a media center. Now I have an old iMac with a broken screen hooked up to a projector. All I had to throw on was a wireless keyboard and mouse + some ultra-white paint + some cool graffiti to frame the image and it makes a great wall sized TV.

The computer + Projector combo might be poised to be the new 'poor man's home theater'. Without all the gear needed to handle 20 inputs and outputs a projector is a helluva bargain, and if you throw in eyeTV and it can do everything a TV and a computer can - just 2X the size.

The point I am, longwindedly, trying to make is that a giant sized computer screen totally changes the way people interact with the computer. It makes it into even more of a social device for me and my friends, showing pictures, watching Google video, Stage6, or BitTorrent downloads. I agree with trush that we need some TV sized websites to make this process even easier and more fun.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:30:01 -0000

Or an acoustic guitar!

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

jackson — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:02:17 -0000

It's good to have a boom box around as well, for when the power goes out. Music goes well with candles.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

kenberger — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:13:21 -0000

Bummed I'm late to this, but here's a project that works great:

Using Utorrent or Azureus bittorrent clients and their RSS functionality, write scripts that learn what you like to watch and in the background dload content continually. Eg: monitor tvtorrents and isohunt and various torrent blogs and feeds and continuously search for "Desperate Housewives" and movies w/ "Buscemi" as an actor. Hook up an HDTV via hdmi to a wireless network HD Media Player, the media player has a remote control so from your tv screen you can peruse the video and music files that's on your computers or networked hard drives. If you're Windows-based, D-Link DSM-520 is excellent (DSM-510 looks nice but doesn't work). Win Media Center works great too.

You now can unplug and cancel your cable connection. You'll have a vast and smart ever-growing video warehouse drawing from world-wide content on the most open platform ever, (time-shifted of course, live news won't work).

This is the 1-tv scenario, there's products to sync it thru the house too.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fascinated — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:34:02 -0000

Hype Machine looks NICE on that screen! Love it! :)

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Alan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:24:12 -0000

Interesting to hear that your previous system was overkill. I love the simplicity of your current setup. Do you have (or need) anything to distribute the recordings on the DVRs throughout the house or do you just use each one at the tv it is connected to?

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

wallbang — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:30:31 -0000

Fred,

I have some code that does this. The interface would be rough - but I can take a sec, strip it out, and compile it.

This is what it can do:

- user installs app on mediashare server

- user specifies multiple source volumes

- user specifies a destination for each media type (pic, music, movie, podcast, tvshow)

- user specifies a modified date/time to begin from (app will not replace existing files)

- the code takes over from there, every x min crawling source volumes and copying files to destination folder(s), Error checking for unmounted volumes is incl - though no sms sent :) and is not tested for windows.

Pretty simple - you might want to spec out your thinking in case I misunderstand what you're wanting. This is what I use to copy to my media mac mini...

M :)

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

bijan — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:14:08 -0000

I use the apple bt keyboard. It's okay, not great. I also use a RF mouse (microsoft). Need something better. I'd like to find a BT keyboard with a built in trackball that worked with the Mac mini. and it's gotta be small or lauren will laugh at me.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

issackelly — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:00:55 -0000

Have you ran joost on your TV? I find that the resolution is poor for watching full screen on my laptop, but it's not bad pushed to my standard def TV. For me it's the amount of content that gets me going; I wish that it worked with XBMC, but I know that asking a real company to support more or less contraband product isn't going to happen.

My killer setup is XBMC, with DVDs from netflix, last.fm and a home linux server.
Macbook pro with sshfs for my music and vids on the road (with joost and last.fm, and a handful of music and videos).

Most of the tech isn't user grade though, I'd rather not jump through hoops, but I can't really justify shelling out cash for slingbox when I already need a server for everything else I do.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

trush — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:36:40 -0000

I've been running a computer through my main TV for a while now and I love it. I've also been playing around with Wii enabled interfaces like Google reader and FineTune. Similar to how companies design iPhone specific sites, there will be a need to have larger format user interfaces to play well on the TV.

I'm working on building a Flex based music player front-end that works like a turntable and can connect to local, hosted, or streaming music. Looks like a vintage B&O Beogram on a 37" LCD...

I think there's a good opportunity to utilize the browser to make the higher end home media experience cheaper, easier, and more accessible.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Tim — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:28:52 -0000

Take a look at PC2TV at Quartice (www.quartics.com)

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:30:01 -0000

I use an integrated wireless keyboard that has the mouse built in.

I forget the maker. I'll check when I get home and leave another comment

I am curious what others use. I don't love mine. It works but its not ideal

Fred

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

alan p — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:43:09 -0000

Good to see you've joined the PCTV crowd...if its any help, we did this about a year ago with a bog standard laptop - called it MyPCTV - some relevant posts on how to dot it are on our blog, Broadstuff, over here:

http://broadstuff.com/categ...

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

thelimeusa — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:13:55 -0000

I like the idea of using a Mac Mini. Can you tell me what keyboard mouse options would be best for a bedroom TV?

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:31:02 -0000

Are you using hdmi output from the mac mini?

Fred

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:30:02 -0000

I do it manually and would love a 'photo crawler' that pulls all photos onto our 'mediashare' server

Fred

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:29:01 -0000

A mac mini connected at an amp and a monitor

Fred

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

fredwilson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:24:02 -0000

I'll play pandora this am just for you harry!

Fred

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Rajesh Duggal — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:33:48 -0000

MythTV is great! It's unfortunate that it requires some real geek knowledge to setup properly.
It integrates, tv recording pvr, scheduling, dvd ripping, music, photoslides, etc. etc.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/...

It also works with firefox.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/...

If you prefer not to use your remote control to surf the web.

Rajesh Duggal

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

mdoeff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:30:41 -0000

Sonos has support for Pandora - http://urltea.com/29k9. You can also access internet radio, subscription music services such as Rhapsody and Napster, and SIRIUS satellite radio.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

mdoeff — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:26:33 -0000

If you're looking for a multi-room solution I think you'll find that the Sonos price is very competitive, especially if you use the ZP80, which hooks into your existing stereo (the ZP100 has a built in and costs more). With that said, if you're looking for a more affordable solution you should take a look at Squeezebox by Slim Devices.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

trib — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:35:01 -0000

I set up a similar system at home on the weekend - Mac Mini into 42" HD Panasonic plasma (http://panasonic.com.au/pro.... There's one downside here - with rectangular pixels, the plasma operates at 4:3 resolutions - 800x600, 1024x768, etc. that slightly distorts the horizontal aspect of the Mac Mini input. If I could resolve this, I'd be in heaven. As it is, it's a minor inconvenience.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Jay Parkhill — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:32:14 -0000

I've been looking for something that will synchronize iPhoto the way Request does iTunes. In my house photos get uploaded to 1 Mac, but I'd like to share them with other PCs and Macs machines in the house. Does anyone have a suggestion for this? Many thanks.

Re: Bringing The Web Into Our Living Room

Charlie Crystle — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:58:41 -0000

To Fred and everyone else: Sonos is quite pricey for the startup set. What's an affordable alternative?