BYOB Episode 85
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Special Guest Chris Barnes from the DMZ podcast thEndUsr joins us to discuss his systems. We’ll also tackle nVidia’s GTX690. Amazon plays me too with their cloud drive. Playon is told to move on. Welcome to Episode 85 of the BYOB Podcast.
Special Guest – Chris Barnes
Chris Barnes is host to the thEndUsr Podcast at theDMZ. He was kind enough to join the BYOB crew this week to talk about his systems as well as weigh in on the rest of this weeks topics. Thanks Chris!
Get more at his blog Barnesian.com and twitter @chrishalebarnes
VPN into WHS2011 without 3rd part tools
The Beast is Back – The GTX690 brings dual GPUs as the new top video card
nVidia beats the 7990 to the market with their dual GPU GTX690.
Amazon Cloud Drive – Yet another hat in the ring
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Hello all, just chiming in to defend Playon. I've been using it for 2 years without any problems. I have it start when the computer boot and the idle is typically 0% to 6% of CPU resources. I originally bought Playon lifetime version for Netflix use on an Xbox without a gold subscription but I mostly use it to stream Netflix and Hulu to the web browser on my phone (Palm Pre+) and a HP TouchPad. Both of these mobile devices support the Flash so Playon seems to be a stable method to receive Netflix, which doesn't provide an app, and Hulu free version which blocks playback on devices that have a mobile browser ID. Any way, it's just my 2 cents. Great show as usual, I've been listening since episode 11. So, You've gotten me to try out OTA digital broadcast recording with WMC and I've migrated to using WMC with a Hauppauge cableCard tuner. Thanks for that, it's a lot of fun except for buying the extra hard drives. My computer is getting long in the tooth so I don't know why Playon runs so well, it's a MSI main-board, Athlon x2 5400, 8g ddr2 ram with a 10% buss overclock, and a Radeon 6570.
On the down side Playon won't stream WTV files which is a bit of a bummer since most of my new content is from the WMC DVR. Ok, I'm done, thanks for the show.
Thanks Mark for the comments and I am glad you are having a better experience than I did. You made an excellent point about Netflix and Hulu as that is a different use case. Thanks for pointing that out as I mainly tested with local files. Thanks for listening to the show and keep putting in your 2 cents.