shenandoah75
Active Member
Well i'm spending tonight trying to get CQC beta up and running with media tag / slimserver, but once i get it done, it's gonna be a killer combo! And i can finally demo something in cqc to the mrs and maybe make some decisions...
Perfect timing too as I was about to run 2 sets of 14/4 wire to my outbuilding (100') until i tried out softsueeze standalone. This is just awesome. I can just use my computer speakers/sub (pretty good antec landsings) in the office. Then i just need a solution (dust friendly) for the shop, maybe i'll ping John for that Fujistsu again if a slow pentium can run softweeze's java app...
Anyway- i digress...
The point of this thread, i would like to choose/prepare for my video solution down the road and be somewhat future proof. Getting wires from my closet/rack to the master bedroom / family is not impossible but would be a royal pain. I had been planning on HDMI runs, switched from two denon receivers. But if i can put my dvd players in the closet rack and send data over the network to a local pc serving as intermediary, that would be far more ideal. I suspect my problem will be that the latest hdmi stuff (bluray/hddvd) will not allow conversion/streaming to anything like this though? I had also considered using dhmi over copper converters, but i would need one UTP and one shielded to do so - again wiring a tow story house is not fun!!!
Sage tv looks cool, but details are sketchy on exactly what formats it supports on the website (worries bluray/hddvd would be out?
thx in advance
-brad
Perfect timing too as I was about to run 2 sets of 14/4 wire to my outbuilding (100') until i tried out softsueeze standalone. This is just awesome. I can just use my computer speakers/sub (pretty good antec landsings) in the office. Then i just need a solution (dust friendly) for the shop, maybe i'll ping John for that Fujistsu again if a slow pentium can run softweeze's java app...
Anyway- i digress...
The point of this thread, i would like to choose/prepare for my video solution down the road and be somewhat future proof. Getting wires from my closet/rack to the master bedroom / family is not impossible but would be a royal pain. I had been planning on HDMI runs, switched from two denon receivers. But if i can put my dvd players in the closet rack and send data over the network to a local pc serving as intermediary, that would be far more ideal. I suspect my problem will be that the latest hdmi stuff (bluray/hddvd) will not allow conversion/streaming to anything like this though? I had also considered using dhmi over copper converters, but i would need one UTP and one shielded to do so - again wiring a tow story house is not fun!!!
Sage tv looks cool, but details are sketchy on exactly what formats it supports on the website (worries bluray/hddvd would be out?
thx in advance
-brad