Sounds like a great idea especially if it were in 1080I But the problem would be having your faminly try and watch thru your tiny computor monitor and speakers, So would there be a way to transfer the movie from your computor to your home theater system if you could that would be awsome stewart
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DOWN LOADING MOVIES INTO YOUR COMPUTOR
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I could be wrong, but I think Stewart was referring to having a movie play from the hard-drive of a computer. An XBox will play a DVD. But, if Stewart did mean playing a DVD from a computer, then all that would be needed is a cable to go between the computer and the TV. I can do this on my Mac in a variety of ways and the Mac laptop basically replaces a DVD player. It's a mess doing this, so I only do this when I go on vacation and I bring my Mac laptop and play DVDs on the hotel TV. Of course, one could download a movie onto the hard-drive and play it back on a TV too with the proper cable, but doing this is a pain too and I find I'd rather pay the low cost of a DVD rather than spend the time and effort to rip and convert a DVD onto my hard-drive. Plus, the movie data takes up a huge amount of space.
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Across the network from the MCE equipped PC.
I'd rather not write in detail about this. It's all out there for others to read up.
Bob
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"I'd rather not write in detail about this. It's all out there for others to read up."
Why wouldn't you help out as a moderator?
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You may be thinking of paid type forums. Here it's all up to each mod to determine what to do.
I'll just note that the 360 and MCE integration is there and at the show I saw some amazing better than 480p output over a lan to the 360.
Some will want me to bicker over this. I'd rather not.
What is worth panning are the junk video stores that don't know their products.
Bob
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I just checked out the 360 site and it said movies are in 480 thatwill give me the same picture quality as my d.v.d. player so it would be worthless for me Sorry mabey iam missing something here. I have seen several demos where a hi-def t.v. is hooked up to a hard drive and was told the movies were downloaded into the hard drive thru the computor and then sent to the t.v. thru h.d.m.i. cable, If this is true it would be awsome because the demos I have seen the picture quality was over the top actually looked like a 1080P picture OK I know your the pro do you know anything about this haVE A NICE DAY STEWART
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