Thanks for all the answers. This has given me a huge start on looking at suitable technology. SadGamerGeek's solution is temping because it would force me to buy an X-box (such hardship!) although I would prefer to use a PS3 because I prefer to support Blu-Ray rather than HD DVD. The trouble is that right now the Xbox seems to be way ahead of PlayStation as far as media centre capability is concerned but I can't believe Sony can afford to allow this to continue for too long. Then again, maybe Sony can't afford much nowadays after all their battery-recall and PS3 shipment delay disasters!
I won't clog up this thread much more, since I'm aware it isn't really SB-related, but I will say one thing re SadGamerGeek's poor streaming speeds over Wireless since that is something that in poor reception could affect SB2 users. I just did a bit of Googling and the new 200Mb powerline devices (conforming to the newer Homeplug AV spec) seem to be available now and not too expensive. Here's a link to the Netgear stuff (from the UK site, but I would expect that the same stuff must be on the other country sites): http://www.netgear.co.uk/wallplugged_adapterkit_hdxb101.php Although my wireless SB2 works perfectly, my experience of using 802.11g for connecting remotely to another PC to use some remote desktop software to control it is that even on an empty network with 100% signal, 54Mb connectivity, and the devices about 2 metres away from each other, the effective bandwidth is still way short of the theoretical 54Mb. I eventually switched to 100Mb wired to connect to my other PC and got at least a 5 times performance increase if not greater so I suspect that my effective bandwidth over my "perfect" wireless connection was 20Mb or even less. If the Powerline devices only deliver even 15% of their claimed performance then you (SadGamerGeek) should see a massive improvement. I personally hadn't realised how far the technology had come on in the last 18 months so I thank SadGamerGeek a second time for inadvertently encouraging me to go off and explore the latest PowerLine technology and discover such a pleasant surprise. Thanks again to everyone who steered me in some good directions. It seems I actually have a number of attractive options and I thought I had none. A perfect result! - Julian -- JulianL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28921 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
