Tech Gear Thread

[cna]

am happy with my 63" Samsung plasma all i need now is a nice 7.1 surround sound upgrade from my current 5.1

[timot_one]

7.1 is a waste of money.  A lot of companies are banking on the fact that people will think that more is better.  5.1 is really all you need for a good surround sound system.  7.1 doesn't bring much to the table and is a waste of money IMHO.

[status]

if i bought a external hard drive is it possible to connect it to my tv and watch movies?

[CrackerTeg]

Possibly. If your TV has the USB input, I don't see why not.

[Mike]

if i bought a external hard drive is it possible to connect it to my tv and watch movies?

If your TV has wifi you can connect your Hard drive to your wireless router and access some content that way.

[cna]

Get yourself of media player like asus or western digital that you can plug in external drives and play them on your t.v my current media center has 3Tb of space internally and 3 tb of space externally which i am able to stream threw wireless N all over the house while keeping the quality of the movies in 1080

[status]

any one use/using a roku? most likely picking one up this week. canceled cable. now that college football is over

[timot_one]

I've seen the Roku's, but have bad experiences with their products.  They are used in some of the displays I work with, and we have had quite a few problems.  I think that's why all of our newer displays use a different media player now.  I would guess end consumer stuff is probably the same quality.

[cna]

The best i have used have been agrosy media players there quick and simple plus company stays up to date with firmware updates which i like the support

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[alpha]

Good call on the PS3.

I hope so..  *knock on wood*  It's my third one, two previous ones failed.  My first one failed within 30 days so I was able to exchange it, but the second one failed after a year; luckily, I had purchased the extended warranty, so it was repaired.  It then failed again earlier this year.

[timot_one]

Doesn't Sony fix them for less than the cost of buying a new one?

[B.R.03EX]

I've heard that but I have no idea if they are still doing it. I bought a used one last year and I haven't had any problems with it. Why on earth do the new ps3's not have backwards compatibility with ps2 games? That is the only reason I bought a used one.

[alpha]

Doesn't Sony fix them for less than the cost of buying a new one?

Possibly.  But I think last time I looked into it, the cost was at least $150.  When my second unit failed for the second time, I didn't care much to have it fixed since I didn't really have much time to play with video games or anything; so I bought a blu-ray player since I really was only using my PS3 at the time to watch movies.  Well, that player started failing the other night, so I went to go look for a new one and thought to myself that this may be an opportunity to pick up another PS3.

Why on earth do the new ps3's not have backwards compatibility with ps2 games? That is the only reason I bought a used one.

I actually never had a PS2, always played it at friend's places.  I had the ability to play old PS2 games on my previous one, but I don't have any old PS2 games, so it was a moot feature for me.

[accordguy04]

XBOX ftw...

You can keep your Blu-Ray players and I'll keep my working console. haha jk

My bro got my dad a Blu-Ray player last year.  He was workin at Sears and it was a floor model.  Just for display, never turned on.  He got it for $50 with his employee discount!! lol

[Mike]

Xbox's have there share of issues. I need a new blu ray player also...