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davemorton

llan wrote: »

Hi everyone :wave:

I'm looking for a DVD player and wondered if anyone could steer me in the right direction.

What I need is to be able put AVI, MP4, MKV movies onto a USB which I can plug into the DVD player and play on television. Multi-regional facility would be helpful but isn't essential and I'd like to keep costs below £70.

Anyone any ideas please?

Thank you.

just a thought. Would a £10 nowtv thing not go what you are wanting to do, but in a slightly different was? i.e. stream it straight from your computer to the tv.

davemorton

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Boiled egg ?

Yes please

llan

davemorton wrote: »

just a thought. Would a £10 nowtv thing not go what you are wanting to do, but in a slightly different was? i.e. stream it straight from your computer to the tv.

Thank you davemorton.
I download movies and they come in a mixed bag of formats. Some are AVI format - some MKV, and soforth. I also download from Youtube and they come as MP4. This is why I need a player that can handle these different formats. Presently I get them off the net and put them onto a dvd player which only has AVI facility.

davemorton

llan wrote: »

Thank you davemorton.
I download movies and they come in a mixed bag of formats. Some are AVI format - some MKV, and soforth. I also download from Youtube and they come as MP4. This is why I need a player that can handle these different formats. Presently I get them off the net and put them onto a dvd player which only has AVI facility.

May be worth googling the NowTV thing, as I am sure you can jailbreak it so that you can send films direct from your computer to the TV using your wifi.

MKS

Went to pick my C&C up this morning. 10 Choc bags were subbed with 2x45 bags:mad: Went to cs and Manager came and told me that there was an error online and they were canceling orders. Mine slipped through so they just gave me two!

Enterprise_1701C

davemorton wrote: »

Yes please

Eat it while it's hot

gocat

Bah all this talk of halogens, acti fryer yesterday and just tried to use my Halogen and the bulb not working. Only had it since last August grrrrr. How easy is it to replace these bulbs. Its the one from Robert Dyas. Got it as a present from my daughter, so dont know if she has receipt (waiting for her to reply to me about that).

Dexter777_2

llan wrote: »

Thank you davemorton.
I download movies and they come in a mixed bag of formats. Some are AVI format - some MKV, and soforth. I also download from Youtube and they come as MP4. This is why I need a player that can handle these different formats. Presently I get them off the net and put them onto a dvd player which only has AVI facility.

Does your TV have a USB input on the side or back, if so you can plug directly in to that.

Failing that look at XBMC on a 2nd hand Acer Revo or a new Raspberry Pi, this software and hardware play everything you throw at it.

Enterprise_1701C

gocat wrote: »

Bah all this talk of halogens, acti fryer yesterday and just tried to use my Halogen and the bulb not working. Only had it since last August grrrrr. How easy is it to replace these bulbs. Its the one from Robert Dyas. Got it as a present from my daughter, so dont know if she has receipt (waiting for her to reply to me about that).

If she does hot have the receipt then a bank statement/credit card statement will do.

Dexter777 wrote: »

Does your TV have a USB input on the side or back, if so you can plug directly in to that.

Failing that look at XBMC on a 2nd hand Acer Revo or a new Raspberry Pi, this software and hardware play everything you throw at it.

I was about to ask the same, we just plug a portable hard drive into the USB on ours.

dollywops

Morgy9 wrote: »

Lovely and smart .

Expect live versions of mice anytime soon, or maybe dead :rotfl: After a relative lull last 3 nights have yielded 2 dead ones and one live un. Both cats still on patrol looking for live one good job I rescued it. Really must get cat flap replaced so it will lock at night time - must have broke sometime over the winter ......

Benji, 4 year old prolific tabby mouser, bought in a humungus mouse on Saturday night - it was so big, I actually thought it might be a rat! He was playing with it on the half-landing, but I think it might have been dead before he brought it in (I don't normally give him the benefit of the doubt).

Last night I was standing in the kitchen and watched him shoot through the cat-flap with a mouse in his mouth. I shouted at him to get out and OH then chased him round the dining room, back through the lounge and he went back out. When he returned, mouse-free, OH was all nice and loving him and told him he only gets shouted at when he has a mouse.

I am still waiting for someone to develop a cat-flap with a sensor that detects a second heartbeat to prevent entry - wishful thinking on my part.