Ok...Here's the situation.
This is me: $500 in the bank. I have over 400 XVID DVD quality movies, 3,000 MPG2 quality music videos, and 5,000 MP3s.
My friend: Multimillionaire. Just ordered a bunch of 60" plasma TVs for his 3 story penthouse in Manhattan.
My friend saw some of my movies and thought it would be cool for me to install some sort of theater hardware in his apartment. He wants to be able to watch all the movies and videos and listen to my MP3s. Now I have the Phillips XVID DVD player and have put all my movies on DVD-R for myself, but he wants something fancier. I love the way that a moded XBOX with Media Center (XBMC) shows a thumbnail pic of each DVD title it finds on IMDB. I would like to just put up the Xbox and hook up a networked HD for the XBOX to play movies off of, but he is very bad with gadgets and I need something simpiler that he would not need to fumble with a joystick to get to certain menus (yes I know u can use the remote control on XBMC but u need to use the joystick first to load it). I know XBMC has software for PC now too, but I was hoping to avid hooking up a loud computer near his TV.
So here are the goals I need met:
1.) Be able to play over 200 GBs of XVID movies.
2.) Be able to download thumbnail pics as well as detials of each movie from IMDB.
3.) Be able to put a DVD that he owns in to copy itself to the HD (this is not a 100% requirement, but would be cool)
4.) Be able to network to play movies on the other plasmas in the house.
I know there are network servers that cost $20,000-$50,000 that can do these things but I am hoping to show him something I can do myself so that he can instead put some of that mone in my pocket.
Any info would be def. appreciated.
Evan
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What would u do if u had unlimited $$$$
SO I would have something to watch while the presses run!!!
You dirty @$@$ what did you think I meant
So are you going to transfer all the originals of your Mp3s and other fabulous collection stuff to this person also??
This is me: $500 in the bank. I have over 400 XVID DVD quality movies, 3,000 MPG2 quality music videos, and 5,000 MP3s
Sounds like a little to much to be the local bands and kids little legue ball games!!
If he's a multiemillionare then why don't he just buy all the reall stuff and a 500 disk changer for the system instead of messing with this other STUFF.
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Hmmm.... Grey area.
But, it sounds awefully suspicious that you are planning on giving your friend your big collection of content you probably don't have copyright to.
I'm going to lock this post.
If I am misinterpreting you, then PM me.
Regards.Michael Tam
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