So basically most of my audio visual is completely unused.
I have about 50 dvds (never used), as well as a 10 year old + DVD player (never used), a vhs player (never used), and a sky HD box which is used but only for the freeview channels as I cancelled the sky subscription some years ago as it's mostly shyte.
I want to sell these electrical items off to make way for a more streamline set-up.
Everything has moved on, dvds and even blue ray are almost obselete and when I do watch movies I stream them from a usb external hard drive or flash drive and watch them on the PC using a media player, this is good enough for me.
Sadly though I practically never watch movies through the tv due to it's lack of functionality compared to the PC, but I'd like to, so I did a bit of research and came across netflix.
I don't want to connect the tv (in another room) to the PC, so I was thinking about buying a box which connects to the tv and communicates with the hub, either wirelessly or I can hard wire it.
My question is, how will this conflict with the existing skybox which I use to watch the freeview channels, and is it worth it ?? I must have the ability to play movies from a flash or extrenal drive via whatever new box I buy, otherwise I've gained nothing from doing this other than shelf space.
I'm really out of touch with all this, and what I do know I've taken from having conversations with mates etc, so any information here is appreciated.
I have about 50 dvds (never used), as well as a 10 year old + DVD player (never used), a vhs player (never used), and a sky HD box which is used but only for the freeview channels as I cancelled the sky subscription some years ago as it's mostly shyte.
I want to sell these electrical items off to make way for a more streamline set-up.
Everything has moved on, dvds and even blue ray are almost obselete and when I do watch movies I stream them from a usb external hard drive or flash drive and watch them on the PC using a media player, this is good enough for me.
Sadly though I practically never watch movies through the tv due to it's lack of functionality compared to the PC, but I'd like to, so I did a bit of research and came across netflix.
I don't want to connect the tv (in another room) to the PC, so I was thinking about buying a box which connects to the tv and communicates with the hub, either wirelessly or I can hard wire it.
My question is, how will this conflict with the existing skybox which I use to watch the freeview channels, and is it worth it ?? I must have the ability to play movies from a flash or extrenal drive via whatever new box I buy, otherwise I've gained nothing from doing this other than shelf space.
I'm really out of touch with all this, and what I do know I've taken from having conversations with mates etc, so any information here is appreciated.