This post is just a follow up with images, taken after pulling the Cat5E wire from the basement to my attic and back down to my bedroom.
The image quality is not the best as the digital camera seems to live in my wife’s purse, so iPhone snapshots will have to do for now.
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Well, after years of using my Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender for my whole home AV solution, I finally picked up Madden 10.As this is not a review of the game, I will just say, “Wow!, I don’t even like football and this is amazing.”
But then the downfall. I had some buddies over the other night to play a little football, and after our first game playing against each other, we decided to take our “skills” online to play the world! Read the rest of this entry »
From a facebook.com message:Dear David,
I am trying to find the best/easiest solution to my issue.
I currently stream my media (mostly movies) from my PowerBook to my TV (a Vizio, of course) via an XBox360, a wireless networking adapter for the 360, and Yazsoft’s “Playback” as the software on my computer (http://yazsoft.com/products/playback/information/). It works just fine, but I keep most of my movies on an external hard drive. I’m not sure if it’s the wireless connection, the software, my computer, etc., but when I plug in the hard drive to my computer and try to stream from it, the movies do not stream well enough to watch. I was thinking about getting Apple’s 1 or 2 TB Time Capsule and plugging it directly into the XBox. Is this a viable solution? Regardless, what do you recommend as my best option here (keeping in mind I would like to try and not open up any walls if possible). Thanks in advance.
-Constantly Buffering
As you may be aware the Divx Tech Preview for Windows 7 Allows Xbox 360 extenders to play natively without transcoding MKV files.