Krakerman

I have an old PC Pentium 4 laying around and tonight I am gonna convert it into a Boxee Box media center. The software is free and I really like the interface it has. That thing has been collecting dust might as well turn it into something usefull. It's nowhere near as fast as my new PC, but it will get the job done I'm sure. Plus it is plenty fast enuff to put alot of emulators on it as well.

Yes you can install PlayOn and see all your channels but it will not play any of them as it will crap out/ timeout per say. That sux, but for playon I will run it from my Wii so all is not lost Also Roku 2 doesn't have the YouTube channel as Google told them to drop it as well. Then again I can run Youtube from my Wii as well or my DVD/Blu-ray player.

Got the Roku hooked up and the test I did in the beginning was not to impressive as my wireless internet in the living room is not that good no fault of the Roku, but when I got home tonight from work I installed D-Link's Powerline AV Network and then hooked it up to my wireless bridge access point and now it is blazing fast as well as my wireless signal in the living room is at full bars ... All I can say is Wow! impressive. Before I would only get like 1-2 bars out there now getting max, very nice! Anyways back to the Roku 2 as it was a snap to setup and they have quite a bit of channels to install. I even got a Sirius XM private channel that I installed and it works good, but the stations are all wrong for some reason not quite sure why, but it does work. They do have a quite a few music channels to setup like Shoutcast and Pandora. I did need to install Orb Caster on my PC for the Sirius XM channel to work, but it was free. It will work with TVVersity as well. I even found Justin.TV private channel very kool. Will test PlayOn later tonight and see if it works. I've heard Roku didn't like PlayOn and removed it Hopefully there is a work-around. The Roku 2 itself is very light and is the size of apple tv almost fits in my hand. Very strange thou the Roku 2 never turns off it is on all the time. There is no way to turn it off unless you unplug the power cord. They say it only consumes as much energy as a night light. Overall I am digging it, but will need to give it alot more test as well. Need to watch some movies and see how it plays them. I'll get more use out of it this weekend and let you guys know then how it did with Netflix and Hulu. All and my wife really like the Angry Birds channel haha

That's the one I got and for only a $99 can't beat it. Best way around the dual band would be to use a dual band bridge and hook it up to the XS model since that version has the ethernet connection on the back plus has the bonus USB too. Much better buy I think. That might help on the drop signals.

Nope! But I'm so fast at doing it now that it just come natural doing it that way. Not that big of a deal for me

Will do!

@celly Yes you need the reciever for your PC to find the controller and headset if you have one of those as well.

Yeah!

Thanks guys! I did a search in the forums last night but it didn't turn up anything but I knew if I asked someone would know and point me in the right direction

I'm looking for a good GameEx icon (png image) to use with RocketDock. Anyone have one at all?

Anyone have one of these? If so how do you like it? I just bought online the Roku 2 should be here monday ! Looking forward to see what this baby can do on my living room TV. The wife doesn't like those HDTV's (I have my 47" HDTV in the man cave) so we still have the 500lb Sony TV out there. Nice thing it has Hulu and hopefully it will work with my PlayOn!

I have a Microsoft Wireless Reciever for PC and it does that already. Is that what your talking about. As you need that for your PC to recognise the controller and yes pressing the guide button will tell you your battery status If you have the wireless headset as well it will work too with it

Doesn't matter anymore as 11.89 has fixed my issues

Thanks Tom we'll see if it fixes my issues with 11.88 & 11.87. Is it me or is your site very slow when d/l'ing GameEx like 78 kb/sec very slow than what it used to be before your HD crashed. UPDATE: All is working again!!

What video? Says it's been removed!

Very strange thing tonight happening. I have 11.88 installed and no emulators are running under GameEx and I reverted back to 11.87 and the same thing nothing running. So I reverted back to 11.86 and everything works again. hmmmmm it's been one of those days!

That's too bad RSS Feeds might look pretty kewl with that theme!

Very nice one Draco! Might have to switch from Sins of a Solar Empire to that one when it's done! Are you gonna add RSS feeds to that as well?

@Adultery nice list of tables! I also have to mention a few Honorable Mentions: T2 - Judgement Day Simpson Pinball Party Tales from the Crypt Elvira and the Party Monsters and I have alot of memories at christmas time ... back in '79 playing the LED based pinball game Wildfire as well

Nice choice Tom! I have Funhouse as well, but of the virtual variety

Mine are (in no particular order): 1) Black Knight 2) Gorgar 3) Funhouse 4) Firepower 5) Fireball 6) Medusa 7) Sorcerer 8) Flash Gordon 9) Xenon 10) Superman

Killin me Drac! Thanks for the updated SNES logo.

I agree with Adultery ... 2nd one the others look like I'm trying to look thru chicken wire not that the second one doesn't but it is easier on the eyes for us old folk

Also playing Crysis on PC as well! Just amazing running this on my PC maxed out at 1920x1080 output to my 47" HDTV looks gorgeous and runs super smooth as well. Been thinking of getting Crysis 2. I do have Crysis Warhead, but haven't played that yet. I got both those on Steam for $10 when they had a sale a few months ago Was well worth it!!

No doubt about that!