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Master Geek

#400627 5-Nov-2010 11:31

I have a full 21 inches of CRT, VCR, HDD recorder and laptop, plugged into the stereo

stevebake

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Wannabe Geek

#400628 5-Nov-2010 11:31

We have a 50 inch plasma which predates HD (it was a free hand-me-down)

Also a cheapo Freeview satellite receiver and a cheapo non-freeview HDR.

This all results in a fuzzy picture which is freaken huge

willwnz

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Wannabe Geek

#400629 5-Nov-2010 11:33

Got a Samsung 40" with free Zinwell freeview box that came with the TV. It has worked fine to date - no problems at all. My only bleat is that it has a red light to show that it is on standby but no light whatsoever when you turn it on. Just takes a bit of getting used to because sometimes it takes a few secs for the screen to come on - so at first you think that something is not working!

Time for a new HD box with PVR!

timmmay

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#400630 5-Nov-2010 11:33

I'd like to enter. I have a Samsung 3D Plasma, Onkyo receiver, Wharfdale speakers, PS3 delivering content over the home powerline network, and a Samsung 3D Blu Ray player once Samsung gets around to sending to me.

kardyl

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Geek

#400631 5-Nov-2010 11:34

I currently have a Samsung 46" with DVB-T for watching "live" tv.

I record on my PC using a Nova T 500 twin tuner using GBPVR - playback via VLC thru HDMI to the TV and Sony reciever for sounds.

Having one of these would make the set-up so much simpler and wouldn't have to have the PC sitting in the same room.

Thanks to you geekzone.

huckster

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#400632 5-Nov-2010 11:34

Looks nice!

Dynamic

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#400633 5-Nov-2010 11:34

Our old 25" CRT finally caved in but the largest TV that would fit in the cabinet my wife loves so much was a little Philips 32" LCD. It hooks nicely to a PS2, DVD player, and I picked up a little hard drive media player recently - an ACRYAN PlayonHD with an HDMI output. It will play pretty much anything you throw at it over a network or USB, and if you get the bigger one there is a full size SATA hard drive bay for as big a drive as you can find.

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OwenWatson

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Master Geek

#400634 5-Nov-2010 11:34

A big fat zero, unless you count internet access to TV1!

Looking forward to entering the world of TV again.

MaxLV

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Ultimate Geek

#400635 5-Nov-2010 11:35

I have:

Sony Bravia 32" LCD connected to Home Network for streaming videos from the net, and PC access.

Sony STR-D565 Receiver for Stereo audio from TV, Home PC Network, DVD Player and Telstra T-Box

Sony DVD Player

Telstra T-Box PVR

leemarrett

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Master Geek

#400637 5-Nov-2010 11:38

Does anyone know if this unit is able to be integrated with Google TV?

I'm slowly putting together an HTPC based around Windows Media Center 7 and trying to figure out how I can integrate Google TV with it. Maybe a PVR that is compatible with Google TV and the Logitech Revue would be a better option?

bernardgbailey

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Master Geek

#400639 5-Nov-2010 11:39

My experience with Freeview was quite a journey. I started in October 2008 with an "ex - Lease IBM Desktop" a PCI TechniSat satellite card, 500GB disk and an FX5200 TVOUT card running MediaPortal 1.0.

Successive upgrades and finally a big lightning strike down the aerial killed my satellite card in February 2010.

The profit disbursement manager was out of patience by now, our scheduled TV viewing was a nightmare; so I invested in a Satellite STB with a USB drive port. This was adequate but certainly no match for the Media PC, but I had to do something.

Father's day came along and Sky's half price offer for MySky was too tempting for the PDM and now we are working on MySky which is some what better than the STB, but not as good ans the Media PC, however it is more reliable.

The half price deal runs out in February 2011, so we'll wait and see if MP is up to scratch and if my remaining cards still work.

Cheers
Bernard

TeWharau

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Geek

#400640 5-Nov-2010 11:40

Fellow Geeks,

I use a Dreambox to record onto an airdisk (USB drive hanging off a Airport Extreme). Then everyone in the house can look at it if/when/how they they want.

Here is an instructable I wrote detailing the primitive setup.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Multi-Room-Media-Network-on-the-CHEAP/

funnyfela

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Ultimate Geek

#400642 5-Nov-2010 11:41

32" Konka LCD
Panasonic Home theatre
Pace Sky Decoder (the silver one)
+ Laptop via vga occasionally

If you have to run heating in winter, you don’t own enough computers.

Reubes3K

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Wannabe Geek

#400643 5-Nov-2010 11:43

Sony 46 200hz with a mysky box and a pc running into the 15 pin slot for web sourced content.

Are there any good indoor antenna for freeview, i know the Sony does digital but the reception on the antenna inthe house is rubbish.

nzbase

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#400644 5-Nov-2010 11:43

Two setups:

110 inch projection screen with Panasonic 2,000 lumens projector hooked to MySky, Xbox 360, networked online and connected to local TVersity Media Server for streaming along with Onkyo Home Theatre with Yamaha sub - nothing like playing Xbox at full size :)

Standard 32'inch Bravia connected to WDLive Media Player & MySky

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