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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
air play to a connected apple tv.
but... since you have Xfinity you can use the Xfinity TV app to actually access the guide, look at previews, change the channel and even order an on demand program. |
I don't have Apple TV, but am thinking about getting a Roku for the TV in my kitchen. That's assuming I can stream from my HDD via DLNA as well. I'll have to look into the Xfinity app. I have it downloaded, but really haven't looked at it since everything I want can be accessed directly from the TV. I only see the benefit of using it when I'm not in front of my TV, which is what I thought it was for.
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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Many devices now support something called DLNA, for streaming from media devices, or computers, to other media devices or computers. I use it all the time. I have a 1 terabyte hard drive on my desktop that I store podcasts, movies, and TV shows on, and using a program called miniDLNA, I have it streamed to the TVs in my house. It works out quite nice, I make a copy of my DVDs and such and put them away so they're not taking up a bunch of room in my apartment, and just pull them up where ever I want. Also is cool, since I have a TV tuner card, I can have my computer be a TV, recording what I want, and not be restricted on where I watch it. Hell, there are times I tunnel in to my home network and stream stuff from there while at work.
In the case of the iPad, you can buy stuff from iTunes, and stream it to your TV as well using the same sort of system. Not to mention that there are ways to use it as a universal remote.
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I use DLNA all the time. Two of my 3 HDD's on my PC are dedicated for media only since they take up so much space. I also use DLNA to access stuff from my netbook, laptop and Droid, but as far as I know, I cant access my iPad from my TVs. How do you use it as a universal remote? I've heard of doing that with Android but thought it couldn't be done w/ an iPad unless you have Apple TV.