trady
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Hi all,
As title says, my 3 year old Xtreamer Mk1 is not doing his duties any-more. Due to what I would say is a construction failure the optical sound socket broke and the cable wont stay in place.
Now, my big questions is whats next? I have been reading page up and page down in the forum, and I guess the upside of a forum like this is also its curse - its just SO much information that I am more confused after 5 hours here than I was before I came in.
My setup, that has been working perfectly for my needs was the MK1 connected to a synology NAS for streaming 1080p movies, full stop. I never used it for web streaming or any other features, not even the scraping as I never got it to work.
My new device should do the same, and if possible sort the IMDB scraping as well.
I thought of an Apple TV as laptop, iphone and ipad are already in place, but from what I understand apple tv 2 wont stream in full 1080p, and apple tv 3 isnt jailbroken yet so I cant use it with the synology.
I also though of getting another xtreamer, but its well confusing with all the options. I dont need a device that can hold HDD, the Synology does this job. Neither do I need a device that plays Blue-ray....
As a last possibility I could pick up another Mk1 from ebay for £20, but I guess much have happened since 2010, so maybe its a good time to upgrade?
Can also buy something 2nd hand if it makes sense, but I dont want to spend several hundreds on a device....
Cheers,
trady
As title says, my 3 year old Xtreamer Mk1 is not doing his duties any-more. Due to what I would say is a construction failure the optical sound socket broke and the cable wont stay in place.
Now, my big questions is whats next? I have been reading page up and page down in the forum, and I guess the upside of a forum like this is also its curse - its just SO much information that I am more confused after 5 hours here than I was before I came in.
My setup, that has been working perfectly for my needs was the MK1 connected to a synology NAS for streaming 1080p movies, full stop. I never used it for web streaming or any other features, not even the scraping as I never got it to work.
My new device should do the same, and if possible sort the IMDB scraping as well.
I thought of an Apple TV as laptop, iphone and ipad are already in place, but from what I understand apple tv 2 wont stream in full 1080p, and apple tv 3 isnt jailbroken yet so I cant use it with the synology.
I also though of getting another xtreamer, but its well confusing with all the options. I dont need a device that can hold HDD, the Synology does this job. Neither do I need a device that plays Blue-ray....
As a last possibility I could pick up another Mk1 from ebay for £20, but I guess much have happened since 2010, so maybe its a good time to upgrade?
Can also buy something 2nd hand if it makes sense, but I dont want to spend several hundreds on a device....
Cheers,
trady