In holiday for a week now. We went to the sea and or just back.
It was a fantastic week whit my son of 2.5 now. Playing at the beach, we went to see butterfly s and dolphins. So I will post so picture on this.
No to bed it was a long day today
30 August 2009
22 August 2009
Apple TV
Yesterday I didn't had the time to pick up the apple TV now I have to wait for 2 week after my vacation. So later more about this
21 August 2009
School
Today I went to write my son into a school. School that start on 1/9, so it was time to do that :).
20 August 2009
Linksys Kiss DP-1600
Finally the time to look at the new Linksys.
First some picture:
It is looking nice. About have the width of a standard A/V device.
First thing to do was installing it. That went without any problems, I'm using the SCART cable because the TV in the bedroom is an old one.
Then turning it on and the basic setup went like a dream. I 'm using the wireless connection for now. The entry thing toke about 10 min.
First thing I checked was the Firmware, on the site the latest firmware is v1.1.17 but the one install was v1.2. A bit strange so after some searching on internet I found that the 1.2 was only install on the newer device and never release to the public, why nobody now.
So next thing a DVD works perfectly.
Then the real stuff, playing with the network. You have about 4 web service of the device but all in English and most of then not really useful for me (My wife does speak very well English).
Installing the PC-link on one of my computers to test the media part. The installation went good and the software works OK. At last for the first 2 min I used it. I added some folders with some movie to test and the player played all of then. Tomorrow I will take a look to install it on my server and do some more tests with more different formats.
First some picture:
It is looking nice. About have the width of a standard A/V device.
First thing to do was installing it. That went without any problems, I'm using the SCART cable because the TV in the bedroom is an old one.
Then turning it on and the basic setup went like a dream. I 'm using the wireless connection for now. The entry thing toke about 10 min.
First thing I checked was the Firmware, on the site the latest firmware is v1.1.17 but the one install was v1.2. A bit strange so after some searching on internet I found that the 1.2 was only install on the newer device and never release to the public, why nobody now.
So next thing a DVD works perfectly.
Then the real stuff, playing with the network. You have about 4 web service of the device but all in English and most of then not really useful for me (My wife does speak very well English).
Installing the PC-link on one of my computers to test the media part. The installation went good and the software works OK. At last for the first 2 min I used it. I added some folders with some movie to test and the player played all of then. Tomorrow I will take a look to install it on my server and do some more tests with more different formats.
Server to warm
Shit,
I just see that there where troubles on my array in my home server, due to warm inside the server, I think anyway. Now I'm searching for a good tool to monitor these values. Any ideas?
6 disc in on standard desktop case is many a bit to much. With these temperatures.
I just see that there where troubles on my array in my home server, due to warm inside the server, I think anyway. Now I'm searching for a good tool to monitor these values. Any ideas?
6 disc in on standard desktop case is many a bit to much. With these temperatures.
Apple tv
I just see that I won a apple tv on Internet. The version that has 40 gb for something like 122,5€. I will try to pick it up today. And let you now what I find of it.
19 August 2009
Linksys Kiss DP-1600
After my DVD player in my bedroom went dead I looked around to buy a new player but I wanted to have a device that also could play stuff from my network.
The specs I was searching:
-DVD player
-Network access
-Played almost anything (for example mkv)
-Not to expensive
-Harddrive support.
-Upnp
I look at the new Popcorn hour C-200. It looked like it can do all I want it to do (and more), only the price in Europe is a bit high for now.
Looking a bit more I found the Linksys Kiss series that wasn't looking so bad. So after reading a lot about this device and not having a lot of other options I bought the KISS 1600 on internet for about 99€ + 15€ shipping.
Negative point where for me:
-No support for mkv
-Not playing everything correctly
-And bad support from linksys. Helpdesk and firmware support.
But I needed a dvd player so for that price I could try it.
btw if you any other device that can do the stuff I want please tell me.
The player arrived yesterday and I will test it tomorrow.
I will (try) to post some picture and comments on my first impression as soon as I can.
The specs I was searching:
-DVD player
-Network access
-Played almost anything (for example mkv)
-Not to expensive
-Harddrive support.
-Upnp
I look at the new Popcorn hour C-200. It looked like it can do all I want it to do (and more), only the price in Europe is a bit high for now.
Looking a bit more I found the Linksys Kiss series that wasn't looking so bad. So after reading a lot about this device and not having a lot of other options I bought the KISS 1600 on internet for about 99€ + 15€ shipping.
Negative point where for me:
-No support for mkv
-Not playing everything correctly
-And bad support from linksys. Helpdesk and firmware support.
But I needed a dvd player so for that price I could try it.
btw if you any other device that can do the stuff I want please tell me.
The player arrived yesterday and I will test it tomorrow.
I will (try) to post some picture and comments on my first impression as soon as I can.
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