Google Video on your telly!

Jon12345

Jon12345

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Ok, there is a lot of decent video content out there: Google Video, YouTube etc.

How can I watch it on my Pioneer plasma? What is the easiest or cheapest way?

Thanks,

Jon
 
Get a laptop with video signal output. The quality is rubbish though if you've got a big tv. Most videos on the web are low quality as this results in low hard disk size. When you maximize the picture it gets quite blocky, and the sound isnt too good either.

I've got an Acer 5920 wireless with HDMI output to a Samsung 32" HDTV. The quality isnt good, believe me. As I've just said, on the web, low size,low quality, low picture. Its the www after all.
 
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AsusCoolUk said:
Get a laptop with video signal output. The quality is rubbish though if you've got a big tv. Most videos on the web are low quality as this results in low hard disk size. When you maximize the picture it gets quite blocky, and the sound isnt too good either.

I've got an Acer 5920 wireless with HDMI output to a Samsung 32" HDTV. The quality isnt good, believe me. As I've just said, on the web, low size,low quality, low picture. Its the www after all.
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Spot on :)
 
Yes, as the quote from Spiderman says "With great quality comes great hard disk space".....or was it "With great power comes great responsibility"....

Some of the 3min videos on youtube are around 2mb or 3mb in size, but a good quality DVD picture and sound will be around 50-60mb in size or maybe more. I know a full 2hr DVD for your TV can be around 4000-7000Mb in size .

When are the 100Trillabyte hard drives coming out with 1000Meg broadband connections!.. :mad:
 
Jon12345 said:
Ok, there is a lot of decent video content out there: Google Video, YouTube etc.

How can I watch it on my Pioneer plasma? What is the easiest or cheapest way?

Thanks,

Jon
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Google video = decent? :confused:

The cheapest way is just to connect a vga lead from your pc to the tv.

You could also convert the video to a dvd-video format.

Or buy a laptop or something else capable of paying the videos.
 
skanky said:
hows it done with the wii?
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You download the Opera client software on the Wii via the shopping channel (iirc) you probably have to pay around 900 points I got it free a while ago :p
 
TheKnat said:
Apple TV's now have a feature in the menu to let you watch youtube videos from the web.
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Got that and it ROCKS!

Not all videos available yet as still converting them to h264 but they reckon they'll all be done pretty soon I think.

Quality is pretty good on 32" LCD telly, surprisingly.
 
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