Vista Extender Fireguy32 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/6/2008 11:35:07 PM Ok, im trying to watch my videos that I have on my terrabyte drive on my pc on my tv in the other room. I know I can get an extender but what extender is the best out there? I would like to watch High def/blu-ray quality discs w/o loss of performance or video quality. I know some of the reviews say xbox 360 but then it says if your wathcing movies 360 might not be the best bang for your buck.....very frustrating what say you???? :confused: -- Fireguy32

Re: Vista Extender "Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> 10/7/2008 1:09:28 PM "Fireguy32" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:a8306814b3811234a528c9ab678e0034[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > Ok, im trying to watch my videos that I have on my terrabyte drive on my > pc on my tv in the other room. I know I can get an extender but what > extender is the best out there? I would like to watch High def/blu-ray > quality discs w/o loss of performance or video quality. I know some of > the reviews say xbox 360 but then it says if your wathcing movies 360 > might not be the best bang for your buck.....very frustrating what say > you???? Xbox 360 is the best extender out there, although louder than other extenders. No extender can stream HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs or DVDs over the network. The reviews probably say the Xbox 360 isn't the best bang for the "buck" because it used to be more expensive, and a regular DVD player is much cheaper. As far as I'm aware the 360 is the cheapest extender out there. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Re: Vista Extender Fireguy32 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/7/2008 2:12:23 PM Crap! You say it cant stream the movies on my pc?!?! Thats the whole reason on getting it!! I thought you could do that...now im confused, not really a gamer so what else can you do with it besides games if you can't do movies? -- Fireguy32

Re: Vista Extender "Paul Smith" <Paul[ at ]nospam.windowsresource.net> 10/7/2008 2:25:18 PM "Fireguy32" <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> wrote in message news:446399f61e6364fe4934496365e212f8[ at ]nntp-gateway.com... [Quoted Text] > Crap! You say it cant stream the movies on my pc?!?! "No extender can stream HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs or DVDs over the network." If you've got videos on your PC you can stream them, the Xbox 360 support a number of formats including WMV, XVID and DIVX. The Xbox 360 has a DVD drive, and an HD DVD addon drive that can play DVD or HD DVD *discs*. -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

Re: Vista Extender Fireguy32 <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 10/8/2008 2:13:56 AM ok Paul, thanks for your help on this, so the way I understand it, he and Bly ray are out unless I stretch an hdmi cable through the attic. But as far as he goes I thought "HD" lost the battle with Blu-Ray, the format will now be Blu-ray not hd if that's the case then what? -- Fireguy32