Yeah Rick, sounds like this would be the best thing to do, and I already have the machine to do it with, no problem at all. My receiver is too old for digital input, though. Its manufacture was stopped in 1993, although the companion CD player does have an optical output (one of those funny square connectors, not SPDIF or anything like that). This is probably how it'll go, but the music bridge thing might be right for the bedroom environment, where things have to be smaller, or maybe the netbook, which is pretty small.
On Wed, 06 May 2009 12:05:12 -0400, you wrote: >Steve, > >I went through this very thing, trying to find a good but fairly >accessible way to stream media to my fairly high end home entertainment >setup in our living room and never found anything I was truly pleased >with. > >Last year I decided to go the way of a pc with XP installed on it and it >was the best decision I could have made. It doesn't even have to be >media center. I have an Ethernet connection now in the living room, but >for quite a while I simply used 802.11g and it worked fine. I had >access to all of my music, and being a NetFlix subscriber, I am also >able to stream movies from the NetFlix site. > >This is all done on a refurbished machine that I picked up for around >$250. I simply installed an old SoundBlaster Live card I had lying >around to give me digital out for audio > >Since my wife and daughter needed good video for the Netflix movies, I >bought a video card from NewEgg with DVI output to go to our hd TV so >video looks great. You have to match the output of the video card to >whatever your TV accepts like DVI, HDMI, or Component if you care about >video. > >I use either Winamp or Itunes for streaming my music from a network >drive and it sounds terrific. > >To me, this is the best setup because it is easy, in expensive, and >perfectly accessible. > >RA > > >On 5/6/2009 6:22 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: >> I'm always after a better solution to my same old problem of streaming >> Internet audio to a non-Internet device, such as my living-room >> entertainment center, or my bedside radio. I'm so disgusted with the >> FM transmitter thing because of all the metal studs in my walls, I'm >> once again looking at something I can use with my wireless router, put >> it anywhere, and plug it up to an audio device as described above. A >> Media Center PC might be a good alternative, but are they under $500 >> yet? The $500 price point is based on the price of a rather >> interesting piece of gear from Logitech that will do the job and even >> allow direct access to one's own media library, but of course it's >> hopelessly inaccessible by a totally blind person. The Media Center >> PC, however, could be made accessible simply by installing a >> screenreader on it, even if it's Narrator or one of the free ones out >> there--we're not doing rocket science projects on it, we're just >> picking music and playing it, so it won't matter how good the >> screenreader is or isn't. Like I said, even Narrator'll do for this >> purpose! And for your five portraits of Mr. Franklin, you get a real >> computer to boot! >> >> Has anybody had any experience with any of these streaming products >> like the Logitech one? Or is it your considered opinion to go the PC >> or cheap Mac route? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >> pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org >> > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
