Steve wrote:That was awesome Kim - thanks for the link. That Jimmy Page looks like one cool old cat.
Not sure if it's of any interest at all, but our old telly blew up just after christmas & the new one that we got has wi-fi connectivity. It makes it really easy to watch Youtube directly on your TV. Our one is still a little clunky, but I reckon that they're only going to get better over the next little while. Something to think about on your next upgrade.
Steve
Agree on all counts Steve.
Our teli is only about 6 month old and will stream compressed media from ABC iview and such flawlessly. But despite best efforts to rectify with upgrade to a really good modem and everything on the LAN now being hardwired via gigabit switch instead of using WiFi, it seems our broadband2 connection is simply not up to streaming 'HD' quality without considerable caching along the way which really kills the joy. The connection is not 'too' bad because I can direct stream HD quality video from the net to playback on the 24" monitor of my PC without issue, but that's not then up-scaling to 60" @ 1080p and I think that right there is the issue.
I know its not a WiFi issue because as I said, everything is hardwired @ gigabit and I 'can' stream HD clips to the teli direct from my phone via WiFi without a problem. So the solution for me when I want to watch HD clips on the teli at this point in time is to first download them to my PC, and then access them for play back from the media folder on the PC using a networked Oppo bluray player via a DLNA server such as Serviio. (Free and works well)
http://www.serviio.org/
This works really well as our entire music, video and photo libraries can now be accessed by anything on the network, including remotely via our phones if required. The TV, receiver/amp and bluray all have android apps so you can use ur phone to control everything from anywhere when playing back including where on any of the 3 channels availiable on the amp. The only hitch is that the TV (Panasonic plasma) does not seem to want to play back video clips such as FLV and MP4 etc downloaded from the net directly, neither does the Denon amp, but as explained we access them via the Oppo bluray and they play at outstanding quality with sound to match...must have something to do with superior codec used by Oppo I recon
Cheers
Kim