How Do You Handle Home Media?

carpoolio writes "Yahoo's Tech Tuesday has an interesting series on bridging the PC/home entertainment gap. The solutions are fairly complicated, and very Windows-centric. As I store more media on my PowerBook, I'm finding more ways I can't listen to or view it on my stereo and TV. One example: TiVo Desktop won't stream AAC files - only MP3s - from iTunes to TiVo. That's an easy fix, but still: how do you get stuff off of your computer and onto your TV, stereo, etc.?"

I agree this stuff is still too complicated ...

[xmas2003]

I have a fairly complex halloween decorations [komar.org] and christmas lights [komar.org] setup (includes X10 controls for the lights and a webcam), but I leave the VCR programming up to my wife.

How do I handle my home media?

[TimmyDee]

Very carefully. That shit's expensive.

Re:One fix..

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn fucking moderators need to take it in the ass for once.

Stop coveting it.

[torpor]

The 'net is your hard drive. Delete, I say. Let the winds blow to you what they will.

You don't need 8gigs of TV show. It isn't actually doing you any good to hoard all this so-called 'valuable content'. Some would consider it a kind of cancer ...

Re:"Out" cards

[mrchaotica]

Just seems like people are making this needlessly complex. But then, maybe that's the way we slashdotters like it...?

Ah, now you're getting it!

There's a saying out there that goes something like this: "Every program will expand in scope until it becomes a framework." This is the same deal -- "Every home theatre solution will expand in scope until you can play a movie in the living room while sitting on the toilet." To do otherwise just wouldn't be geeky enough!

Re:Xbox + XBMC all you need

[Armando_Mcgillicutty]

"We really got to thank Microsoft for the Xbox!"

I never thought I'd see a statement like that on /.