GOOD on Netflix STREAMING?

[ChshreCat]

On a more serious note... I'm setting up a HTPC so I'll be able to stream anything they offer on the web from any of the network sites. Now if I could only get my ball games. That's the one thing I miss. I can pull in most of my NFL games off air with an antenna, but baseball is all cable network around here. There's ways to get around things to watch them online, but they always suck.

 

[barrooze]

I take it you didn't read my entire post.

 

[barrooze]

On a more serious note... I'm setting up a HTPC so I'll be able to stream anything they offer on the web from any of the network sites. Now if I could only get my ball games. That's the one thing I miss. I can pull in most of my NFL games off air with an antenna, but baseball is all cable network around here. There's ways to get around things to watch them online, but they always suck.

What's an HTPC? Do you have a link that can help set one up?

 

[ChshreCat]

I take it you didn't read my entire post.

Nah, I did. That's why I followed up with a more serious answer.

 

[ChshreCat]

What's an HTPC? Do you have a link that can help set one up?

Home Theater PC. Basically a computer in a small case that you connect to your TV. I'm building it from scratch. Should come out to about $375 and have enough oomph to do some decent gaming on the big screen as well. Gonna have all the game emulators on it too.

It'll also get around something that really annoys me about Hulu. I'm paying for Hulu Plus so I can watch it on my TV, but a good portion of the shows on there aren't available on the TV, only through the web. So I"m paying more to get less.

 

[ChshreCat]

This is basically what I'm doing: http://lifehacker.com/5936546/how-i-built-the-media-center-of-my-dreams-for-under-500

Though that article is about a year old so I was able to do it a little cheaper with better components.

 

[ShaineT]

This is basically what I'm doing: http://lifehacker.com/5936546/how-i-built-the-media-center-of-my-dreams-for-under-500

Though that article is about a year old so I was able to do it a little cheaper with better components.

The author says "impossible" but Netflix and BlueRay will play on a Linux box. In any case the HTPC sounds cool, I've just been using a modded Wii using 'homebrew' software (not beer) BTW you can sync wiimotes to a PC if it has bluetooth.

 

[cheezydemon3]

The author says "impossible" but Netflix and BlueRay will play on a Linux box. In any case the HTPC sounds cool, I've just been using a modded Wii using 'homebrew' software (not beer) BTW you can sync wiimotes to a PC if it has bluetooth.

The Wii is so underrated and misunderstood.

That pointer makes the Netflix and Amazon interfaces on the wii unparalelled.

Wiimotes on a touchscreen would have far more usefulness (I am guessing) than on a regular PC, right?

 

[mightynintendo]

The Wii is so underrated and misunderstood.

That pointer makes the Netflix and Amazon interfaces on the wii unparalelled.

Wiimotes on a touchscreen would have far more usefulness (I am guessing) than on a regular PC, right?

Bullsheet. Xbox kinect trumps wii pointer any day.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Bullsheet. Xbox kinect trumps wii pointer any day.

So you would jump around your livingroom to control your tvpc?

Go for it.

 

[FermentusMaximus]

Just watched Reggie Watts: Why $#!+ So Crazy

Good stuff, especially with a nice buzz. Very abstract music and humor along the lines of the Comedy Bang Bang TV series.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Apartment 143 was intriguing, not too well acted, and the ending sucked.

 

[Whsoj]

Anybody tried Netflix max yet I confused the crap out of that thing last night it could not pick a movie for ****e.

 

[mightynintendo]

So you would jump around your livingroom to control your tvpc?

Go for it.

Obviously you are not familiar with voice control through the kinect.

 

[Swarley88]

Anybody tried Netflix max yet I confused the crap out of that thing last night it could not pick a movie for ****e.

Yeah didn't do a good job for me either

 

[cheezydemon3]

Obviously you are not familiar with voice control through the kinect.

Perhaps not. So you talk to your TV rather than than move around. Fair enough, but I will still stick with the wiimote.

 

[ShaineT]

Perhaps not. So you talk to your TV rather than than move around. Fair enough, but I will still stick with the wiimote.

+1. I'll stay with wiimote. Sounds like the Kinect in my house would give a whole new meaning to "fighting over the remote"
?

 

[Channel66]

+1. I'll stay with wiimote. Sounds like the Kinect in my house would give a whole new meaning to "fighting over the remote"
?

Playing games with friends using voice control is great, see them entering a room full of zombies and tell the Kinect to switch to flashlight instead of the AR. Enjoy.

 

[HoppyDaze]

another vote for wiimote but I primarily use my wii to watch netflix. I don't, nor do my friends, have enough time to play video games.

 

[Channel66]

another vote for wiimote but I primarily use my wii to watch netflix. I don't, nor do my friends, have enough time to play video games.

Sorry? If you have time to watch Netflix you have time to play video games, but looking down your nose at everything I can see how you wouldn't see that...

But hey you are clearly better than and more successful than me...

 

[TxBrew]

another vote for wiimote but I primarily use my wii to watch netflix. I don't, nor do my friends, have enough time to play video games.

Play old school games. I play Kirby all the time.

 

[HoppyDaze]

Sorry? If you have time to watch Netflix you have time to play video games, but looking down your nose at everything I can see how you wouldn't see that...

But hey you are clearly better than and more successful than me...

Whoa! Down boy!

How the hell did you get that from me saying I don't have time to video games? Not my intent at all. Sorry I put you on the defense.

Video games take a huge time commitment for them to be worthwhile; I think everyone would agree with that. Catching a 45 min episode of BSG before going to bed is not exactly the same thing.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I'm digging Caprica. It's no BSG but it's definitely doing a good job as a prequel. Hot chicks, decent acting and awesome landscapes...

 

[bleme]

Whoa! Down boy!

How the hell did you get that from me saying I don't have time to video games? Not my intent at all. Sorry I put you on the defense.

Video games take a huge time commitment for them to be worthwhile; I think everyone would agree with that. Catching a 45 min episode of BSG before going to bed is not exactly the same thing.

Not everyone would agree. I hop on for 20 minutes to play 2 rounds of Blacklight Retribution all the time. I can even play during my lunch at work.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I suppose...I just think it takes a long time for me to get good enough at any given game for it to be worth it. Loved Super Mario Wii though, took me forever to get good at it. The only other game I committed time to besides that one was Golden Eye when I was in college. Best. Game. Ever. Facility with Rocket Launchers baby!

 

[mightynintendo]

Talking to the TV is indeed awesome. I don't know about wii remotes, but the Xbox remote shuts down after 20 minutes of being idle. It takes several annoying seconds to turn back on and pause a show. Just saying Xbox pause is far superior to that.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Talking to the TV is indeed awesome. I don't know about wii remotes, but the Xbox remote shuts down after 20 minutes of being idle. It takes several annoying seconds to turn back on and pause a show. Just saying Xbox pause is far superior to that.

Fair enough brother....and as you admit, you are NOT familiar with the wiimote

Indeed they go to sleep, but 2 pushes of A wakes then pauses, no lag.
I need to check out the kinect for sure.

All I know is that the wiimote kicks the crap out of hand controllers for Call of Duty and the like.

 

[TxBrew]

Those seconds are annoying. I always rage when that happens.

 

[Swarley88]

Hells on Wheels is pretty good. About halfway through. Are all of the AMC originals at least halfway decent. Seems like half of my favorite shows come from AMC

 

[KayaBrew]

If you like baseball, there is a good documentary streaming called "Knuckleball!" It features Tim Wakefield and RA Dickey mainly, along with Charlie Hough and the Niekro Brothers. Very interesting.