Comments on: Google enters the PC to TV arena http://www.last100.com/2008/06/27/google-enters-the-pc-to-tv-arena/ Tracking the digital lifestyle Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:26:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Steve O'Hear, editor http://www.last100.com/2008/06/27/google-enters-the-pc-to-tv-arena/#comment-61978 Steve O'Hear, editor Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:30:16 +0000 http://www.last100.com/?p=2049#comment-61978 @ Offbeatmammal I'm afraid it doesn't transcode files, as far as I'm aware. Although there are a number of other UPnP AV servers that do that. See the our <a href="http://www.last100.com/2008/05/27/dlna-certified/" rel="nofollow">DLNA certified guide</a> that we link to in the post. @ Offbeatmammal

I’m afraid it doesn’t transcode files, as far as I’m aware. Although there are a number of other UPnP AV servers that do that. See the our DLNA certified guide that we link to in the post.

]]> By: Offbeatmammal http://www.last100.com/2008/06/27/google-enters-the-pc-to-tv-arena/#comment-61977 Offbeatmammal Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:01:07 +0000 http://www.last100.com/?p=2049#comment-61977 if it does a good job of on-the-fly format conversion for stuff I've obtained (eg from Bittorrent) with a variety of codecs and containers, and can stream DVDs to my Xbox360 then Windows Media Center and AppleTV become very dubious propositions. If however it can't then this is no better than enabling Media Sharing on a Windows Home Server or Vista PC if it does a good job of on-the-fly format conversion for stuff I’ve obtained (eg from Bittorrent) with a variety of codecs and containers, and can stream DVDs to my Xbox360 then Windows Media Center and AppleTV become very dubious propositions.
If however it can’t then this is no better than enabling Media Sharing on a Windows Home Server or Vista PC

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