Bit of a departure for this thread, but it's android, so what the hell:
I just bought a sum vision cyclone nano+ on fleabay for about £70. It's a little solid state android box with Ethernet, wifi, sd card and hdmi out. You can run xbmc on it, on android or Linux, and very nicely to play back all your videos, photos etc on your tele.
Get the black one, with 1gb RAM if you want to run android (ics) or the white one with 512mb if you want to run straight Linux xbmc.
It also comes with a pretty nifty air mouse remote control with a qwerty keyboard, a bit like a wii controller for pointing.
I use it to play tv shows and movies I have downloaded, and leave it always on, plugged into the amp. Beats the hell out of trying to get dlna to work.
Bit of a departure for this thread, but it's android, so what the hell:
I just bought a sum vision cyclone nano+ on fleabay for about £70. It's a little solid state android box with Ethernet, wifi, sd card and hdmi out. You can run xbmc on it, on android or Linux, and very nicely to play back all your videos, photos etc on your tele.
Get the black one, with 1gb RAM if you want to run android (ics) or the white one with 512mb if you want to run straight Linux xbmc.
It also comes with a pretty nifty air mouse remote control with a qwerty keyboard, a bit like a wii controller for pointing.
I use it to play tv shows and movies I have downloaded, and leave it always on, plugged into the amp. Beats the hell out of trying to get dlna to work.