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DLNA Media Center Software, Compiled And Simplified

2:00PM August 13, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Want to get media onto your TV using some of that fancy DLNA standard hardware? You still might be at a loss for which media centre software is right for you, but now there’s a handy chart.

It looks like there’s always going to be a tradeoff when choosing software to move media from your PC to a PS3, Xbox 360 or any of the other DLNA-compatible hardware that plugs into your TV. PlayOn, for example, has built-in support for Hulu, ESPN, CNN, Netflix, and CBS—but it costs $US40 and can’t handle RSS, audio or photo streaming. For our money, we’d go with TVersity, mostly because there’s no money involved. [TubeCentric]

Comments

  • PeterE

    August 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM

    Nice ad for a company selling services to run on DLNA servers. Obvious entries missing, presumably because tubecentric doesn’t support them, are ushare and mythtv.

    • StevoTheDevo

      August 14, 2009 at 7:03 AM

      and PS3 Media Server which I’m pretty sure ticks all the boxes and is dead easy to set up… Just install and it works..

  • StevoTheDevo

    August 14, 2009 at 7:05 AM

    Oh and +1 for ushare, incredibly lightweight for it’s feature-set.
    I’m running ushare on a hacked, very cheap Buffalo NAS.. with only 16Mb RAM. Don’t use the DLNA functionality so can’t vouch for it there.. use it for my xbox360 which just needs uPnP..

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