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April 19, 2011 06:19 AM

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AdmiralP

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Press release indicates PogoPlug should stream to XBox, PS£s and internet-tvs.

Thee's been a fair bit of forum chat about XBoxes, etc (Pity Wii isn't linkable to PogoPlug), but I haven't seen any coments using PogoPlug as a media server to an internert-TV set. Anyone got any experiences to share?

As I understand if your TV has a USB slot into which you can plug a WiFi dongle or similar, you can then use the TVs media centere capabilities to stream media from your server (e,g, PogoPlug ?) to your TV...

I'd appreciate any comments on the success or otherwise of this.

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April 19, 2011 8:10 AM

Essentially, these new "Internet TVs" are have embeded platforms that stream from DLNA/UPnP sources, very similar to how Blu-ray players, Roku, XBox, PS3, et al do.

Assuming that the TV has network connectivity, and can "speak", per-se, to the Pogoplug's software, then yes, it should be able to access the content on the Pogoplug

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April 19, 2011 12:06 PM

I've used mediatomb to work with my Samsung. It is a DNLA server in Optware but not on the Pgoplug without a little hacking. I used it on a nslu2 as well. Seems to work well on the plug.

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May 17, 2011 4:12 PM

Just a quick update -
I've now purchased a Panasonic TX-L42E30B tv. Have equipped it with a Netgear wireless adapter and done the configuration and using the Panasonic Vierra Tools can access thwe Media Server function and from there access music, video and photo files on my PogoPlug, initially by specifying the Loval Drive on the Panasonic menu. Looks good! I need to do a bit of experimenting with the slideshow feature on the Panasonic - not sure if there seems to be an upper linit on files it can retrieve from a folder on the PogoPlug drive.

Anyone else having success with this arrangement - no additional s/w on the PogoPlug - just set the streaming feature and off it goes.

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