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"Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
> start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
> noisy to have in the lounge anyway.

<snip>

> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Here's a novel  idea...if you're looking for both convenience and
reliability, buy a standalone DVD player. You can get a decent model for
around $150, and they will throw in the remote at no extra charge.

should be able to do it with an IR keyboard and a set of IR repeaters

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In article <PkDh7.4619$V5.14612@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au>, 
"Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I have a PC in the study with DVD and it's also my main gaming machine.  At
>the moment I output DVD to the telly via 10 meter S-VHS and audio cables
>down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
>start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
>noisy to have in the lounge anyway.
>
>I plan to put a lesser PC (no monitor but will have output to the TV when
>not viewing output of the DVD PC) in the lounge to play mp3's.  All my PC's
>are connected via 10mbps Ethernet, so I was wondering if there is some way I
>can take advantage of the keyboard and mouse on this machine to control the
>better PC in the other room when watching DVD's (and ideally even games on
>the tv!).  I'm assuming that something like PC Anywhere isn't what I'm after
>because I really only need to have keyboard/mouse input to the other machine
>which is sent via ethernet, with the high-bandwidth audio/video going
>straight to the TV (ie I won't even have a monitor for the lounge PC) rather
>than having a virtual desktop.
>
>Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Cheers!
>
>
>

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:51:31 -0400, "Z Man" <z1z@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Here's a novel  idea...if you're looking for both convenience and
>reliability, buy a standalone DVD player. You can get a decent model for
>around $150, and they will throw in the remote at no extra charge.


Yeah, but how one suppose to justify for more gadgets, not to mention
the "cool" factor? <g>







-bobb

Fair enough, but what about the DivX movies and games?  What about those
overnight rentals that I didn't get time to watch so ripped em to the HDD
instead to watch the next night?  What about getting overseas-bought DVD's
to watch on my crippled region-locked standalone?

Besides, in a side by side comparison, in my opinion software decoding gives
noticeably better quality than a standalone DVD player anyway - I simply
don't see a standalone unit as a replacement for the PC equivalent.

Cheers!


"Z Man" <z1z@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> "Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:PkDh7.4619$V5.14612@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au...
>
> > down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
> > start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
> > noisy to have in the lounge anyway.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Here's a novel  idea...if you're looking for both convenience and
> reliability, buy a standalone DVD player. You can get a decent model for
> around $150, and they will throw in the remote at no extra charge.
>
>
>

Gave you considered using VNC? http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

--
Alastair D'Silva                      mob: 0413 485 733
Networking Consultant          ph: (08) 9345 5223
New Millennium Networking  http://www.newmillennium.net.au

Exactly what I was going to suggest, VNC works great and it's FREE too.
 I have it on all my home systems and when one of the kids pc's  has a
problem it saves me running up and down stairs to troubleshoot it.

--
Ender
"Alastair D'Silva" <news@newmillennium.net.au\> wrote in message
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> Gave you considered using VNC? http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
>

Hi,
Yes, VNC is great to remote control a PC but I have testet it today and it
is too slow to play games through a VNC Connection.

Axel

"Ender" <ender2@att.net> wrote in message
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> Exactly what I was going to suggest, VNC works great and it's FREE too.
>  I have it on all my home systems and when one of the kids pc's  has a
> problem it saves me running up and down stairs to troubleshoot it.
>
> --
> Ender
> "Alastair D'Silva" <news@newmillennium.net.au\> wrote in message
> news:IBMh7.147808$Xr6.833590@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Gave you considered using VNC? http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc
> >
>
>

In article <3cMh7.4653$V5.14988@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au>, 
mka27@hotmail.com says...
> Fair enough, but what about the DivX movies and games?  What about those
> overnight rentals that I didn't get time to watch so ripped em to the HDD
> instead to watch the next night?  What about getting overseas-bought DVD's
> to watch on my crippled region-locked standalone?
> 
> Besides, in a side by side comparison, in my opinion software decoding gives
> noticeably better quality than a standalone DVD player anyway - I simply
> don't see a standalone unit as a replacement for the PC equivalent.
> 
1) You can burn the rips to VideoCD.
2) I don't know many DVD players that don't have region free hacks. Some 
just require a certain key sequence using the remote.
3) Standalone DVD players piss all over software decoding. Perhaps you 
should try using a decent TV and DVD player.


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_________________________
Conor Turton
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ICQ:31909763
_________________________

Serapax wrote in message <3cMh7.4653$V5.14988@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au>...
>
>Besides, in a side by side comparison, in my opinion software decoding gives
>noticeably better quality than a standalone DVD player anyway - I simply
>don't see a standalone unit as a replacement for the PC equivalent.
>
I don't have a DVD-ROM, or I'd try it myself, but I'm having a hard time
with that last claim of yours, so I'd like you to clear up a couple of things.

Your PC and monitor is in the study, and the TV is down the hall in the lounge,
so how could you conduct a "side by side" comparison with that setup?

Regardless, are you saying  that you compared the DVD picture on a regular TV
to a DVD-ROM displayed on a PC monitor, and concluded
that a PC software decoder is superior to a standalone decoder?

That would be flawed logic, to say the least.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:51:31 -0400, "Z Man" <z1z@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>"Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:PkDh7.4619$V5.14612@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au...
>
>> down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
>> start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
>> noisy to have in the lounge anyway.
>
><snip>
>
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Here's a novel  idea...if you're looking for both convenience and
>reliability, buy a standalone DVD player. You can get a decent model for
>around $150, and they will throw in the remote at no extra charge.


Those Apex CD/MP3 players Blow!

Besides... Who the hell wants to be limited to crappy ass 650-700 Megs
of MP3's when you can run a cat-5 cable to the living room and have 60
or so GIG's to choose from??

E-ba sometimes sells remotes for under 10 bucks that you plug into
your Com port then you load some free software to control winamp.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:51:31 -0400, "Z Man" <z1z@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>"Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:PkDh7.4619$V5.14612@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au...
>
>> down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
>> start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
>> noisy to have in the lounge anyway.
>
><snip>
>
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Here's a novel  idea...if you're looking for both convenience and
>reliability, buy a standalone DVD player. You can get a decent model for
>around $150, and they will throw in the remote at no extra charge.


Those Apex CD/MP3 players Blow!

Besides... Who the hell wants to be limited to crappy ass 650-700 Megs
of MP3's when you can run a cat-5 cable to the living room and have 60
or so GIG's to choose from??

E-ba sometimes sells remotes for under 10 bucks that you plug into
your Com port then you load some free software to control winamp.

"Axel" <Axel.Stenkamp@post.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

I would go to avsforum (www.avsforum.com) if you want better advice
than you are likely to get here.  For remote control I would recommend:

o  Irman and a repeater.  This is very cheap to do.  Buy a nice remote,
   you can go to town.
o  The intel wireless keyboard.  It works well and has good quick keys
   for dvd control.  They are also selling the keyboard, mouse, and
   *gamepad* (all wireless) for 100USD here in canada.  The mouse is a
   battery burner so I use a gyromouse (40USD on ebay).

As for the person who recommends a standalone DVD, it is hard to
beat a *good* HTPC.  The only true pain tends to be noise.

mark.

I just purchased GyroRemote Keyboard and GyroMouse Pro by Gyration
(www.gyration.com). These new wireless RF devices work slick. You can
purchase them at computers4sure.com and other places.

Most other wireless keyboards use IR which has VERY limited range. The only
other RF keyboard I've used is by InterLink and it's joystick-like,
mouse-device was the pits.

-=Rhett


"Serapax" <mka27@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:PkDh7.4619$V5.14612@news1.sunsh1.vic.optushome.com.au...
> Hey all,
>
> I have a PC in the study with DVD and it's also my main gaming machine.
At
> the moment I output DVD to the telly via 10 meter S-VHS and audio cables
> down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
> start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
> noisy to have in the lounge anyway.
>
> I plan to put a lesser PC (no monitor but will have output to the TV when
> not viewing output of the DVD PC) in the lounge to play mp3's.  All my
PC's
> are connected via 10mbps Ethernet, so I was wondering if there is some way
I
> can take advantage of the keyboard and mouse on this machine to control
the
> better PC in the other room when watching DVD's (and ideally even games on
> the tv!).  I'm assuming that something like PC Anywhere isn't what I'm
after
> because I really only need to have keyboard/mouse input to the other
machine
> which is sent via ethernet, with the high-bandwidth audio/video going
> straight to the TV (ie I won't even have a monitor for the lounge PC)
rather
> than having a virtual desktop.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
>

eric@xprt.net wrote in message news:<387b7705.9087649@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>...

> E-ba sometimes sells remotes for under 10 bucks that you plug into
> your Com port then you load some free software to control winamp.

Check out http://techgems.net and do a search for winamp remote
they got what you want.