Agentless Backup is Not a Myth
Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo
The TiVo has 500GB or 1TB hard drive options and an adaptable programme guide for searching schedules or delving into last week’s shows from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. It also accesses YouTube, Spotify and an extensive on-demand catalogue for pay-per-view TV and films, with lots in HD. For this it uses an internal 10Mbps modem and subnet so your broadband speed is unaffected. It’s one of the more expensive propositions but the quality is high. Inside it boasts three tuners for recording, which is a distinct advantage. Despite its technical prowess, the user interface is rather sluggish, there are untapped features yet to appear and niggles to be addressed. But gradual firmware updates are improving it.
Price Free (£49.95 for 1TB), subscriptions from £9.50 per month
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Western Digital WD TV Live
The WD TV Live has evolved from a simple but effective digital media player into a more extensive AV offering. The current, third-generation box adds built-in Wi-Fi and handles various DRM protocols for copy-protected material. The line-up of net-delivered content brings the likes of Spotify music, YouTube, BBC iPlayer and now Netflix. The box is also one of the most adaptable and easy to use media players, able to play almost any AV format without a hitch, either streamed from shared computers, Nas drives or disks and USB sticks attached directly to the box.
COMMENTS
It's not exactly an off the shelf option but I'm waiting to see how XBMC on RaspberryPi turns out...
You can't fix it at a Windows level because it's not a Windows problem - there are tens of millions of HDMI monitors out there that work just fine with Windows, and wake and resume properly. TVs, though, until recently, weren't built for that sort of thing, and tend not to cooperate as well with Windows as we all might like.
nothing here that cannot be done in xbmc. Infact right now I have 11 HD streaming channels via rtmp on a single addon. iplayer, itv player ,demand5, tvcatchup 4od too. thats a lot of streaming. Add it to XBMC's awesome library sauce. stick it all on a sub £200 nettop and hand the mrs the remote.
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