The download from iTunes is terribly slow. I have a 100 mbit connection and this one is pending between 10-150kb/s. Oh the horror of waiting to be entertained!

The AAC rss feed is last weeks ep uploaded again

I'm not really sure this is the answer you are looking for but personally I use MakeMKV to rip my movies. The great thing about this program is that it keeps the codecs intacts. It is a straight copy (of the relevant tracks you chose) of whatever is on your disc and put it in an .mkv container. So DVDs usually get a video track in MPEG2 and audio in DTS or Dolby Digital (AC3). BluRays will be H264 or VC1 and DTS or AC3 (no support for TrueHD or DTS-MA yet). Subs work great for DVDs but on BDs the subs are stored in .psg files and as of now no player I know of can handle those yet.

However, these codecs can be hardware accelerated by almost anything nowadays but since I don't have a 360 and my PS3 is used for gaming I have no clue whether or not streaming to those machines will work. If you hook up an HTPC, and yes ION will do, it will play great and you get rid of disc load-time, commercials, trailers skipping discs and everything else that make DVDs and BDs a thing of the past :)

I'm still laughing, that was epic!

Simply put: it depends (never heard that over here right?)

If you have a central storage place like a NAS or a WHS where you put your recordings and want a small and silent WMC, then "yes". Noiseless performance is an easy sell there.

However, if your Media center box is where you store your recordings I say put that money to better use and save up for a windows home server. Then buy yourself a WMC machine that is small and silent. Oh, and make sure you have wired for gbit Ethernet if you want to stream HD reliably.

zeeke

That is amazing, with some decent battery life that thing would be perfect for controlling your home automation system. Imagine a WMC plugin to control the guide and schedule recordings. Now we just have to wait for Apple to crush this :)

I wonder how much the 1080p projectors will go down in price.. Just seems like the market for home projectors should be pretty limited and especially when 50-60 inch plasmas are getting affordable for the average customer I just don't see projectors getting much cheaper.

But then again, the average customer want a 100 inch LCD up on that wall in his 10x12 ft living room. Preferably cranked up to the point where the whole family gets tanned while eating in front of the TV..

I don't want the disc at all, just let me download the 20-something gigs and be done with it..

yeah I know, last time a call "dropped" was probably some years ago when someones pre-paid cash card ran out of money :)

I've got a MSc degree but I couldn't explain that picture to someone if my life depended on it..

Isn't it strange that something that can be accomplished today with AnyDVD HD and three mouse clicks, will need the processing power of Skynet when The Industry wants to throw DRM into the mix?