You can stream high deff movies from your pc to xbox360 to watch on your big screen tv!!!

[pandemonium]

Not smoking related but very cool!! I just found out about this and its awesome!!! You have to have windows 7 and you use windows media center to do it. Let me know if you need help? looks like watching my bluray player.

 

[coyote-1]

That presumes a treasure trove of HD movies on the PC.

Besides Netflix or other similar service, where does one find a bunch of HD movies for PC?

 

[richoso1]

That presumes a treasure trove of HD movies on the PC.

Besides Netflix or other similar service, where does one find a bunch of HD movies for PC?

A very good question...and I know there is an answer somewhere besides the blackmarket.

 

[pandemonium]

umm yea thats for you to find i heard their out there

 

[Bearcarver]

Not smoking related but very cool!! I just found out about this and its awesome!!! You have to have windows 7 and you use windows media center to do it. Let me know if you need help? looks like watching my bluray player.

Yeah, I heard that too, but I don't know how or where.

We have Netfix for over a year now. Rented movies end up costing us about $1 each, and I do a lot of streaming of old movies, like Cheyenne, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick (reliving my childhood).

But the coolest thing is being able to search & watch U-Tube all I want right on my big screen. 

Bearcarver

 

[pandemonium]

yea  wish i could do the youtube thing too but cant, well that i know of yet anyway, i dont have cable tv now so anything is good to entertain

 

[deltadude]

You don't need windows 7, XP will work, but first you have to download the content and play via xbox360.  So if you know where to find the movies and download to your pc, then you can watch them.  TVersity is the application, there is a free version.  My boys moved out and took their xbox360, so I bought a "insignia NS-WBRDVD" blu-ray dvd player (Insignia is the house brand for Best Buy.  I paid $140, got a blu-ray dvd player that streams Netflix, and now Pandora internet radio, via either network cable or to the built-in wireless rec. the pic quality is excellent.  I just wish they would update the software to for Youtube and Hulu and maybe Amazon. 

 

[flyhigh123]

you could add a cheap video card with HDMI out to your PC and then go direct?

 

[Abigail4476]

I love Netflix, and since we also have a Wii, we ordered their disk which allows you to watch any movies in your "Instant Queue" on the regular TV (by inserting the disk in the Wii).    We were already doing that on the bedroom TV using an HDMI cable, but it was nice to have it in the living room as well, so the kids can access their favorites on the big screen.  (without having to connect cables)

Yeah, I heard that too, but I don't know how or where.

We have Netfix for over a year now. Rented movies end up costing us about $1 each, and I do a lot of streaming of old movies, like Cheyenne, Have Gun Will Travel, Maverick (reliving my childhood).

But the coolest thing is being able to search & watch U-Tube all I want right on my big screen. 

Bearcarver

 

[pandemonium]

my pc in my room has a good video card but thats the problem its in my room and not near living room tv

you could add a cheap video card with HDMI out to your PC and then go direct?

 

[pandemonium]

i didnt know xp had the media center? never tried before cool. I have netflix that i stream with my xbox too so the pc movie thing just makes my xbox all that much more usefull.
 

You don't need windows 7, XP will work, but first you have to download the content and play via xbox360.  So if you know where to find the movies and download to your pc, then you can watch them.  TVersity is the application, there is a free version.  My boys moved out and took their xbox360, so I bought a "insignia NS-WBRDVD" blu-ray dvd player (Insignia is the house brand for Best Buy.  I paid $140, got a blu-ray dvd player that streams Netflix, and now Pandora internet radio, via either network cable or to the built-in wireless rec. the pic quality is excellent.  I just wish they would update the software to for Youtube and Hulu and maybe Amazon. 

 

[mballi3011]

Hey Abi what is that dish??? I would be really interested in the name and where we could get one too. We also have a Wii and would like to view some movies on our big screen.

 

[flyhigh123]

Oh you stream over the network to xbox... that's awesome!

 

[deltadude]

i didnt know xp had the media center? never tried before cool. I have netflix that i stream with my xbox too so the pc movie thing just makes my xbox all that much more usefull.

XP Media Center version is what I have, I think having media center is a Tversity requirement.  Again the boys took the xbox360 which give you a menu for TVserity and you can watch many video/movie formats on you PC via >Tversity>Xbox360>TV.   I think I have watched over a 100 Netflix movies streamed to the Insignia Blu-Ray DVD player hooked to my Plasma HD TV. 

Two things are missing with the streaming from Netflix, you only get 2.1 sound, I hope when 5.1 becomes available later this year, the bandwidth requirement won't be to heavy for my 3M DSL connection.  The other is subtitles, my wife refuses to watch a UK or brit movie without subtitles, even some American movies she prefers subtitles because some people are really hard to understand.  Foreign movies with the subtitles already in the movie are fine, it is when the TV has to decode the subtitle data stream, which is NOT streamed via Netflix.  Netflix will be streaming 1080p later this year, again along with the 5.1 sound I might have to switch to cable for internet.

 

[Bearcarver]

XP Media Center version is what I have, I think having media center is a Tversity requirement.  Again the boys took the xbox360 which give you a menu for TVserity and you can watch many video/movie formats on you PC via >Tversity>Xbox360>TV.   I think I have watched over a 100 Netflix movies streamed to the Insignia Blu-Ray DVD player hooked to my Plasma HD TV. 

Two things are missing with the streaming from Netflix, you only get 2.1 sound, I hope when 5.1 becomes available later this year, the bandwidth requirement won't be to heavy for my 3M DSL connection.  The other is subtitles, my wife refuses to watch a UK or brit movie without subtitles, even some American movies she prefers subtitles because some people are really hard to understand.  Foreign movies with the subtitles already in the movie are fine, it is when the TV has to decode the subtitle data stream, which is NOT streamed via Netflix.  Netflix will be streaming 1080p later this year, again along with the 5.1 sound I might have to switch to cable for internet.

Your wife is not alone. I love my CC, when it's mumbling Brits (no offense---I guess it's like an accent over here is to them).

Ever since Vietnam, I have trouble hearing women and little kids (higher pitches). I'm glad to hear NetFlix will be streaming CC later this year---the sooner the better. Can't figure out why I have to turn my sound up to 40 or 50 for many streaming  movies, but Cheyenne & Have Gun Will Travel are loud enough at 24 or 25. And they're 50 years old!

Bear

 

[pandemonium]

yes it is very cool, you can use a laptop too but i found using a pc hardwired worked flawless, the wireless has a harder time streaming the high deffinition movies and you can control it and get to all your files with the xbox controller so theres no point using a wireless pc to use for the movie files.

Oh you stream over the network to xbox... that's awesome!

 

[Bearcarver]

yes it is very cool, you can use a laptop too but i found using a pc hardwired worked flawless, the wireless has a harder time streaming the high deffinition movies and you can control it and get to all your files with the xbox controller so theres no point using a wireless pc to use for the movie files.

 

Yup, I prefer things to be easy to use----Hardwired from our iMac to our Blue Ray--into our DTV & TV. Wife & I watch movies about 5 nights a week.

Never have a problem except no CC on the streaming, and that'll soon be corrected.

Bearcarver
 

 

[Bearcarver]

XP Media Center version is what I have, I think having media center is a Tversity requirement.  Again the boys took the xbox360 which give you a menu for TVserity and you can watch many video/movie formats on you PC via >Tversity>Xbox360>TV.   I think I have watched over a 100 Netflix movies streamed to the Insignia Blu-Ray DVD player hooked to my Plasma HD TV. 

Two things are missing with the streaming from Netflix, you only get 2.1 sound, I hope when 5.1 becomes available later this year, the bandwidth requirement won't be to heavy for my 3M DSL connection.  The other is subtitles, my wife refuses to watch a UK or brit movie without subtitles, even some American movies she prefers subtitles because some people are really hard to understand.  Foreign movies with the subtitles already in the movie are fine, it is when the TV has to decode the subtitle data stream, which is NOT streamed via Netflix.  Netflix will be streaming 1080p later this year, again along with the 5.1 sound I might have to switch to cable for internet.

Hey Deltadude,

It seems that was wishful thinking, when we thought they were going to have CC on their streaming by the end of last year.

I waited all last year for it, because I too have trouble hearing & understanding Brits, some women, and most mumbling little kids!

Not being able to hear those types is normally a good thing, but not while watching a movie, and they are in the movie.

I talked to a couple of the people at NetFlix, and they said they're still working on it, but they also said some of the movies they get for streaming don't come with the CC, and the only way they can do it is to have people physically watch the movies & write new CC for them !!!

That is still my only problem with streaming NetFlix.  Huh?---What???

Bear

 

[rbranstner]

you could add a cheap video card with HDMI out to your PC and then go direct?

This is what my buddy does all the time. He just goes right from his laptop to his big screen.