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shmokes:

--- Quote from: patrickl on March 25, 2010, 11:48:39 pm ---
BTW As far as I know both the Zune HD and iPod Touch CAN stream media.


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Not really.  For example, look at this tutorial for setting up streaming on the iPhone.  




That's hardly a serious option (and even then no Divx).  I'm talking about official support (we were specifically talking about Samba, but DLNA would be perfectly fine).

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Epyx on March 26, 2010, 01:14:57 pm ---Pretty sad but the main reason this device intrigues me is as an E-Book reader and portable media device.

It would be a nice alternative to a laptop for those functions...let's face it...laptops were not designed as guy friendly devices...the heating up of the nether regions is a PITA.

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It would be a replacement for a netbook at best and they don't heat up that much do they? At least I never noticed it much on mine.

In fact I wonder about having to hold the thing all the time as it's biggest drawback. I have a 5" tablet device now and I often find it quite annoying that I cannot set it down and still ready it properly. Luckily it comes with a detachable keyboard which (when attached) lets it stand on that (like a tiny netbook).

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 27, 2010, 06:12:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on March 25, 2010, 11:48:39 pm ---
BTW As far as I know both the Zune HD and iPod Touch CAN stream media.


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Not really.  For example, look at this tutorial for setting up streaming on the iPhone.  


That's hardly a serious option (and even then no Divx).  I'm talking about official support (we were specifically talking about Samba, but DLNA would be perfectly fine).

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I was thinking about a paid method to get it to work though. I remembered seeing a news artile (on a Smartphone website) about a program in the appstore that let you connect to a Windows Home Server and watch video's on your iPhone.

AFAIK, you can also use TVersity and if you have a Mac there is some streaming software on that too that you can connect too.

:edit: How about Air video for example?
:edit2: or iMediaSuite?

the Zune HD is still pretty new, but I think it can stream video's too. Probably not from a Mac though.

shmokes:
Hmm . . . I'm not really interested enough to look into it.  Regardless, the absence of SMB and/or DLNA is surely deliberate.  Both companies know that the devices have a lot of potential as media players, and the more they can control how that media gets to the device the more money they stand to make.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 27, 2010, 06:27:17 pm ---Hmm . . . I'm not really interested enough to look into it.  Regardless, the absence of SMB and/or DLNA is surely deliberate.  Both companies know that the devices have a lot of potential as media players, and the more they can control how that media gets to the device the more money they stand to make.

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Geez, first you make me look it up and then you're not interested, lol.

The Zune is getting new firmware now and then and I think the last release they gave it some media streaming functions built in. Indeed not from Samba/CIF file servers, but through media servers. Which makes a lot more sense too.

Why on earth would you even want to use samba? Connecting to a media server makes much more sense. If you want to download files, the Zune HD allows you to sync over WiFi. if you want to stream media, you connect to a media server.

I don't know what kind of streaming an iPhone has built in, but the Zune HD sure has it.

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