One of the things I liked about the XBox360 was the ability to play digital media from the network (like movies or music) to a TV. I\u2019ve always seen it shown via the Media Center Extender. Over my wifi (N) network \u2013 that sucks! Just browsing the Media Center is s-l-o-w.<\/p>\n
I switched my media over to my Windows Home Server 2011 machine last week from an old PC. At first, I was left thinking that I still had to use Media Center on that PC via the Extender. That didn\u2019t work well. And then I saw I could just play a video direct from the home server. Much better. Now awful browse, and the media actually plays over wifi.<\/p>\n
Keeping it simple just works so much better.<\/p>\n
Now if only the Xbox team could give me a media player where I could just jump to a point in a movie instead of having to fast forward \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things I liked about the XBox360 was the ability to play digital media from the network (like movies or music) to a TV. I\u2019ve always seen it shown via the Media Center Extender. Over my wifi (N) network \u2013 that sucks! Just browsing the Media Center is s-l-o-w. I switched my media … Continue reading “Keep it Simple”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}