| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| It sounds nice though I don't want to pay $40 for the convenience of not pulling out my laptop or walking ten feet to the computer. |
I'm enjoying the free two week period at the moment.
But with Vista causing everything I stream to be choppy as hell and the Mac limited to one room, I'm finding it easier and looking better than hooking up them up to the TV. For my lifestyle I see it being well worth it. Especially the local media sharing which saves me a conversion of burning a show to a disk.
As a back up, I'm still glad for the S-Video port in the laptop and the remote for the computer, but at least this way isn't changing the resolution on my screen every time I plug it in.
There's also still benefits to watching something on a Mac or Windows Media Center. iTunes is still not supported in PlayOn, so those copy protected videos I have still have to go through the computer to the TV. WMC also has exclusive content that other video services don't have. And the Netflix section of WMC might even be easier to navigate than PlayOn, unless everything's already in the queue and in order. The built in 360 Netflix of course is much easier to use than to go through PlayOn, because that was programmed specifically for the system.
So pros and cons, it's a matter of lifestyle really.
