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<blockquote data-quote="porky996t" data-source="post: 787617" data-attributes="member: 75318">Hi Ben,Just as a brief outline, I have been using MP for about two years now in the living room and attached to the main TV. It enabled me to get rid of all the other boxes. I have 6 tuners in it and just use Freeview (DVB-T) and Freesat (DVB-S/S2). From this I run two clients, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen. These are Zotac ZBox ID41's with SSD's in them. I run the Zotacs from AV200 Homeplugs and they run just fine - I did measure the bandwidth that full HD streaming takes (ITV1 HD @ 1920 x 1080) and it was max 36Mbps or thereabouts. They run really well. I use StreamedMP skin on all units for consistency and I use a generic MCE Remote control (RC6 type) on all units, again for consistency, and for a high WAF. Even the GF uses it without any hassle now, and tends to moan when she can't find a film listed on the bedroom unit.I use My TVSeries and find this plugin superb for any TV Series. Now, I copied over any DVD boxsets onto the HDD and MyTVSeries lists these by season, and then each episode under that particular season. For example with 'Porridge', this is listed alphabetically amongst other TV Series and when you click on this, it shows all the Seasons listed with info. When you go into each season, it then shows the episode, again with summary of the episode. I have never used it with DVD's, so I don't know if works the same. It may help to ask this question on the MyTVSeries thread.I have over 100 TV series on HDD and over 500 films which use the MovingPictures plugin and this enables both clients to watch any DVD rips as the Zotac clients do not have a DVD drive - and they are fixed behind the wall mounted TV's and are difficult to reach.HTH,M.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="porky996t, post: 787617, member: 75318"] Hi Ben, Just as a brief outline, I have been using MP for about two years now in the living room and attached to the main TV. It enabled me to get rid of all the other boxes. I have 6 tuners in it and just use Freeview (DVB-T) and Freesat (DVB-S/S2). From this I run two clients, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen. These are Zotac ZBox ID41's with SSD's in them. I run the Zotacs from AV200 Homeplugs and they run just fine - I did measure the bandwidth that full HD streaming takes (ITV1 HD @ 1920 x 1080) and it was max 36Mbps or thereabouts. They run really well. I use StreamedMP skin on all units for consistency and I use a generic MCE Remote control (RC6 type) on all units, again for consistency, and for a high WAF. Even the GF uses it without any hassle now, and tends to moan when she can't find a film listed on the bedroom unit. I use My TVSeries and find this plugin superb for any TV Series. Now, I copied over any DVD boxsets onto the HDD and MyTVSeries lists these by season, and then each episode under that particular season. For example with 'Porridge', this is listed alphabetically amongst other TV Series and when you click on this, it shows all the Seasons listed with info. When you go into each season, it then shows the episode, again with summary of the episode. I have never used it with DVD's, so I don't know if works the same. It may help to ask this question on the MyTVSeries thread. I have over 100 TV series on HDD and over 500 films which use the MovingPictures plugin and this enables both clients to watch any DVD rips as the Zotac clients do not have a DVD drive - and they are fixed behind the wall mounted TV's and are difficult to reach. HTH, M. [/QUOTE]

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