i only use demonid for comics and ebooks

 

oddly enough me as well. just downloaded the audiobooks for "Game of Thrones". managed to get Dad the Wallander books for his Kindle.

 

yep its a ballache in Linux as well. It goes potty if it tries to save stuff and the path to save location is on a drive that hasn't been mounted.

 

on sites i much prefer nzbmatrix because of their movie categories.

sabnzb sits nicely on the top of the status bar of osx too

 

doesn't really bother me as there is only one category of movie I am interested in

 

 

Sorted,many thanks to all!

 

bigsinky, Newxbin is getting thier XXX site back up and running on the new web address

 

2TB hard drives are still 80 odd quid

 

I was joking. I don't really have that much ****.......honest.

 

Whats the best way to play films for instance. I don't want my computer on for watching a movie so I take it I need a media player with HDD or something similar?

Also are these newsgroups good for software as well as media?

 

yes and yes. Ant and I bought an AC Ryan PlayOn HD media box a while back. stick a cat6 cable from it to your router and setup the network shares and it will play 1080p across the network. in fact pretty much everything I have thrown at it. I think Ant bought a new media box recently so I will let him tell you about it.

I stuck a 1TB drive in my AC Ryan but found that stuff streams across the network ok to I only have music on it now.

 

Really sorry for all the questions,
but if i go out and buy this today
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/wester...20191-pdt.html

I can use my Panasonic DMP-BDT210 to stream stuff off it as it is DLNA compliant? would this be correct and a good enough option for me?

 

it would do the job ok, but if its wirless it may struggle with hd content.

personally i prefer a good media player, this is what i use

http://www.futeko.com/products/MP00031.php

 

Hard wiring it wouldn't be such a ballache as my router and blu-ray player are both in my "home cinema" room.

 

All depends on what formats your tv supports , does it support Mkv and mp4? These are the most popular two used.

 

Ant, how does this compare to the AC Ryan? The latest firmware on the AC is pretty cluncky. I know the hardware is over 2 years old but it works. How is the new media player? as easy to use as the AC?

 

Yes very easy, it plays all the hd audio codecs that's the main reason why I bought it oh and for the gigabit LAN

 

Think i'm gonna go with ur suggestion Ant although I bought a 2TB HDD anyway.

 

It'll stream a lot better from the 2tb nas to the media player.

Also ideal for flac playing

 

I use:-

https://www.newzbin2.es/
http://nzbmatrix.com/

for .nzb files

and http://astraweb.com/ for the news server.

As for a newsreader, you can't get better than this one.
http://www.newsbin.com/

Has anyone noticed there seems to be a lot of incompletes on Astraweb lately, or is it just me?

Never had that problem when I used Giganews / Easynews.

 

Can someone point me in the right direction as to where I might find an operating system for my PC? NZBMatrix doesn't seem to have what I'm after.

 

Welcome to the real internet.

 

What os are you after?

 

Got it sorted with the other link you sent me yesterday!

 

Dang this internet business is awesome! Having the hangover from hell yesterday I had a marathon of Eerie Indiana! Loved this programme as a kid.

 

In the past weeks I've been hammering breaking bad from the start

 

i download pretty much 100+ gigs from astraweb each day. great service for 7 quid a month.

 

100 gig a day! **** me!! You'll be getting a letter soon enough.

 

why i love newsgroups, getting the latest episode of breaking bad