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May 24, 2007
Extremely remote control
Like the Chief Toad, I'm also a big fan of time shifting. Personally, I find walking all the way to the PC, plugging in a media box, copying the files, walking all the way back to the TV, plugging in the media box again, and finally getting to sit down, far too much work. So, I've connected up my Xbox 360 to our home PC and stream music, photos, TV, and videos directly across the network, using the Media Extender functionality.
Where things get problematic is when someone tells me about some unmissable program, but I'm not at home, so I can't set it to record. Thankfully, IceTV now provides PIMP, which allows me to use any web browser to set up a recording on my home media center. Once the recording is selected on IceTV's web site, the site contacts a little program running on the media center, and schedules the recording. My Better Half also seems to have discovered the convenience of doing things this way, based on all the strange new recordings I now find on our media center.
Foxtel has now got in on the act too - they have their own Electronic Program Guide which also allows shows to be scheduled for recording on our Foxtel IQ. (For just $10 per week, the IQ is an extremely useful addition to any cable TV connoisseur's household).
With this amazing technology, 'remote controls' don't seem to control very remotely any more - real remote control is setting up a recording from Malaysia, to watch after arriving back home in Australia...
Posted by Jeremy at May 24, 2007 12:56 PM
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I have not given IceTV a run for a while now and use FreeEPG as my EPG in Vista MCE and useWebguide as my remote scheduling application and streaming content to other network connected devices.
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at May 24, 2007 01:44 PM