Recent content by steve_77

azazel1024 thank you for that most informative post, id also like to say thanks to kenZ71... I did some homework and now think i might try the streamer route as - you are correct that the laptop is very loud in living room.. that being said i was looking at WDTV Live, Roku3 or Sony GTV box as...

Again I appreciate your idea I just cant stand apple stuff (too constricting) - itunes, and all the other icrap that third party companies have can certainly make some things easier but your confined to their way of using the stuff. The only reason I like the laptop is i can use the BR/dvdrw to...

understandable..... so taking a step back.... how do move all my collection to the NAS -- there all vobs - im assuming ill need to transcode them ? before putting them on the nas ? or do i put all the vobs on the nas and let plex transcode them for me on the fly? if transoding on the fly : 1)...

Thats what i was thinking but you lost me at Apple TV. If i have another pc / why even have a dedicated 'streamer box' - when i can use plex on that same system and stream it direct to the TV from the machine (which is kinda what im doing now)? Perhaps i dont understand... I appreciate the...

I checked out freenas some time ago and wasnt impressed - the only unix distro i liked was openindiana for the ZFS support, but it was bit of a hassle... I mainly wanted the option of viewing/editing word files and other "windows crap" on my TV.... obviously there are likely alternatives to some...

Hello, Please forgive my ignorance here - I’m trying to figure out a better way to offload my dvds. I have quite a few movies on dvd, and basically ended up ripping them to my hard drive, well the drives grew and now I’m running two 2T drives over a sabrent usb3.o dock which i connect to a...