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shmokes:

--- Quote from: patrickl on March 27, 2010, 06:34:17 pm ---
Geez, first you make me look it up and then you're not interested, lol.


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Hey . . . I responded before your edit.   ;D

shmokes:
The wonderful thing about Samba is that you don't have to do anything.  You just have your files sitting on a hard drive, and your media server sees and plays them.  I don't want to have Windows Media Player open and running on my computer at all times in order to stream.  More to the point, I might not even have the ability to have Windows Media Player open, for example if my media is sitting on a NAS rather than a Windows computer.  Plus, I've tried the streaming from Windows Media Player to my PS3 and it doesn't work well at all.  It grabs all my media and throws it together into a giant mess.  It refuses to organize based on my folder structure.


Edit:

Both of those programs look interesting, and go a long way toward what I would want.  But the first one requires a server running the software to transcode the media a la Tversity.  And the second won't do Divx.  It's still better than I thought it was.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 27, 2010, 06:50:09 pm ---The wonderful thing about Samba is that you don't have to do anything.  You just have your files sitting on a hard drive, and your media server sees and plays them.  
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True.

I don't really care much for streaming media (files or transcoded video), but with a Tablet device I would want to be able to pick up eBooks from the file server. I guess that would be another reason to wait for newer devices and see if they could access Samba shares.

NiN^_^NiN:
Honestly i don't see it as useful for me or most people and it does feel like apple is just trying to make more money without doing much in my eyes.

Id rather get the chinese ipad close it looks like an iPad and runs win7 a 10" screen and has the webcam on the front it's great but doesnt have a multi touch screen which would rock for win7 but still its ALOT cheaper than the iPad and more functional.

This isn't the P88 im talking about i forget what this one is called.

patrickl:
Maybe an Asus Eee PC T91MT would be an alternative. It's a tablet netbook. So you can either fold it into a small tablet or use it as a netbook.

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