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Media Centre Extender

Discussion in 'Home Cinema & Hi-Fi' started by oafc0000, 3 May 2006.

    3 May 2006 at 12:02
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  1. oafc0000

    Gangster

    Joined: 7 Aug 2003

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    Hi All

    I now have a nice new Media Centre working perfectly after a few issues :p

    (AMD 3200+, two tuner cards, 1 gig ram)

    I also have my main computer which also has the media centre operating system installed.

    Question is, can I now use my upstairs computer as a media centre extender?? aka watch TV on my computer?

    Any help would be good,

    Cheers
     
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    2. 4 May 2006 at 04:57
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  2. HEADRAT

    Capodecina

    Joined: 18 Oct 2002

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    Location: Cambridge, UK

    Basically you can't use PC's as extenders.

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    3. 4 May 2006 at 09:08
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  3. oafc0000

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    lol

    wonderful :p
     
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    4. 4 May 2006 at 09:15
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  4. HEADRAT

    Capodecina

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    What you can do is share out the content from the MCE to the other machines but you can't play live tv.

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    5. 4 May 2006 at 11:53
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  5. oafc0000

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    yea ive already done that, its was the live TV I was after, thanks anyway :)
     
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    6. 4 May 2006 at 12:02
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  6. HEADRAT

    Capodecina

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    Not sure how far the development has gone but I've tinkered with this in the past:-

    http://www.orb.com/

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    7. 4 May 2006 at 17:35
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  7. csmager

    Soldato

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    'tis true. And irritating.

    MS were rumoured to be working on a 'software extender', codenamed Softsled (i.e. to turn a PC into an extender). Never happened though.
     
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    8. 5 May 2006 at 02:11
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  8. HEADRAT

    Capodecina

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    You can use a tablet PC as an extender apparently but it hasn't been released for XP, when Vista comes out I think this may support it.

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