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Posted by Jeff Rife on 05/30/06 13:20
Glassman (jksinrod@aol.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > Or, have a PC by the nice big TV set. That's what I do. The case makes
> > it look like just another component.
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> OK now I see you're trying to save face in this one.
Nope. I'm working with the realities of today.
> Why would you want to
> buy another PC, keyboard, mouse, cables. Software, etc etc, to put next to
> your big room TV set, when for $49 bucks you could get a stand alone wafer
> thin and sleek DIVX player that will play all?
Because you can get a thin and sleek PC that does the job *and* does a
lot more (browse the web from your TV, play games, etc.) for less than $500.
If you don't buy that console game unit you were going to buy, the
incremental cost becomes quite low. Or, when you upgrade some other PC in your house (which *everybody* does
at some point), move the old one to the TV. And, "buying software" is
pretty much a red herring. You can do almost everything you need with
either freeware or by spending a total of less than $100.
The advantage of this is that you get a much better user interface for
everything and generally get better software. You also don't have to do
things like copy your pictures from your camera to a CD or DVD...you just
plug the camera or memory card into the PC.
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Jeff Rife | "What are you looking at? You're laborers; you
| should be laboring. That's what you get for
| not having an education."
| -- Professor Hathaway, "Real Genius"
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