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Yeah, I saw that post too, and a couple others. Looks like I’m probably stuck shelling out 100 bucks for the HDfury. I dont have any HDMI->VGA cables laying around.

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that would be interesting!

its the Asus ep 121

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Well, a decent reciever will cost at least 500 bucks, a nice one double that.

the cheaper HD fury looked to be about 100 bucks.

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I will look into that, thanks!

I hate to have to get rid of my reciever, it is older but still good. A yamaha 5.1, dont remember model number off the top of my head.

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Thanks all. That confirms my suspicions. BD’s are simply going to be huge. Theoretically a 2Tb disk could hold 500 dvd’s (at 4gig apiece) and only 100 BD’s (at 20gig apiece). Thats quite a disparity. I guess I could have some BD’s for very cool movies (avatar, etc). So whats the fav software for ripping BD? can it make a file that plays nicely with mediabrowser?

thanks

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with unlimited funding, I could build something just as good. 😛

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with unlimited funding, I could build something just as good. 😛

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Sadly :'( it looks like the app from collectorz.com is’nt going to work so well with WMC/media browser. Apparently, its strictly a cataloger (actually, it has a WMC viewer plugin, but media browser is much better). I may be forced to go back to MyMovies, what I hate about MM is the fact that if it cant talk to mommy, it refuses to run, extremely lame IMO. I darn sure wont pay for that bs.

[perry59]

Sadly :'( it looks like the app from collectorz.com is’nt going to work so well with WMC/media browser. Apparently, its strictly a cataloger (actually, it has a WMC viewer plugin, but media browser is much better). I may be forced to go back to MyMovies, what I hate about MM is the fact that if it cant talk to mommy, it refuses to run, extremely lame IMO. I darn sure wont pay for that bs.

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Just checked out CollectorZ.com and it looks awsome, every bit as good as MyMovies and much better searching/filter. Still locked into their own database for metadata, which kinda sux, but I can work around that. Im gonna give it a try, as long as it dont have to talk to the mother ship I may just buy it.

[perry59]

Just checked out CollectorZ.com and it looks awsome, every bit as good as MyMovies and much better searching/filter. Still locked into their own database for metadata, which kinda sux, but I can work around that. Im gonna give it a try, as long as it dont have to talk to the mother ship I may just buy it.

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[quote=”Mikinho”]
The lack of VIDEO_TS and BDMV support is what kills Windows Media Center Extenders (MCX).  For ripped files I don’t see the native codec support being an issue since Media Foundation really does do a good job with transcoding other than multiple languages and subtitles.  There are work-arounds though.  (I’m a big foreign film nut and for my Brazilian movies my wife needs the subtitles).
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So what kind of files would be playable? just mpg & avi ?

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[quote=”Mikinho”]
The lack of VIDEO_TS and BDMV support is what kills Windows Media Center Extenders (MCX).  For ripped files I don’t see the native codec support being an issue since Media Foundation really does do a good job with transcoding other than multiple languages and subtitles.  There are work-arounds though.  (I’m a big foreign film nut and for my Brazilian movies my wife needs the subtitles).
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So what kind of files would be playable? just mpg & avi ?

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[quote=”jennyfur”]
This is from last year, but still relevant.
http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3582&Itemid=237
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Thanks Jenny, yes I saw that. Its how I got turned on to MyMovies and MediaBrowser.
I settled on MB, so looking for a good “back end” to it. I’ve heard that MetaBrower has some issues, or is no longer in development or something. Collectorz.com looks promising, I will see if I can get a trial. BTW, the deal-killer for me and MyMovies is that fact that it will not work if it cant talk to the mother ship, I refuse to use software like that, its other limitations I could work around.

[perry59]

[quote=”jennyfur”]
This is from last year, but still relevant.
http://www.missingremote.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3582&Itemid=237
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Thanks Jenny, yes I saw that. Its how I got turned on to MyMovies and MediaBrowser.
I settled on MB, so looking for a good “back end” to it. I’ve heard that MetaBrower has some issues, or is no longer in development or something. Collectorz.com looks promising, I will see if I can get a trial. BTW, the deal-killer for me and MyMovies is that fact that it will not work if it cant talk to the mother ship, I refuse to use software like that, its other limitations I could work around.

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