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PC hardware and software for IR-use
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| Topic: | PC hardware and software for IR-use This thread has 3 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 07:04 |
cgroth Founding Member |
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Hi, I have a home theater with several components, amongst them 3 DVD-changers, 1 CD-changer and 2 satellite receivers. I presently use a Marantz RC 9200 to control everything with the help of SuperNudeList. This gives me pretty good control of the system, but I still feel there is a lack of a really intuitive and user friendly graphical interface, and this causes problems when others use it. Particularly it seems that women often have a problem associating their knowledge of a movie with a title, but once they see the cover they know what it's about. I would therefore like to build a system where I can present the DVD and CD covers (as well as satellite channel logos) on a computerscreen and use this to select a title/channel. I know that there are expensive hardware systems that can to this, and also that a program like Movies! have some of this functionality. However, I would like to build something from scratch myself that can do everything within one system.
Can anyone tell me whether there exists a hardware/software solution that will allow me to learn, edit, and send IR commands much like the RC Edit/Pronto Edit works today?
Christopher
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| Post 2 made on Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 11:54 |
raiders_fan94 Long Time Member |
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Why not just import CD and DVD covers to your remote? I have a ProntoPro and have all of my DVD covers and plot summaries per movie on my ccf. I could do the same with my CDs, but that would be A LOT of work.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 13:21 |
cgroth Founding Member |
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That's just it, the amount of work involved seems too much. If SNL allowed me to import thumbnails from DVD Profiler it would help, but also I doubt that I have enough memory, as I have around 800 DVDs and 200 CDs and counting..
If there was somthing like SNL for the MX-3000 and a graphics option I would consider a switch, but until then I think I need to use a PC.
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| Post 4 made on Wednesday August 25, 2004 at 15:52 |
Ted Gatlin Founding Member |
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