Know It Or Blow It

For the last couple of years, I’ve been buying quite a few DVD’s. However, I’m buying less and less lately, partly because I don’t know where to store them anymore and partly because I want to have them available when I want (like the On Demand features), and not wanting to physically search for them.

After our appartment has been redesigned, I decided not to have a DVD player in the room anymore, especially when I discovered Boxee, an open, connected, social media centre, which was now available for AppleTV as well.

So now I’m ripping all my DVD’s in full format to disk, playing them via Boxee on my AppleTV. I think this might become the perfect alternative for Kaleidescape, the $15.000 home entertainment system on which I’ve been drooling for a while.

It’s currently in Alpha state, on invitation only, for Mac, Linux & AppleTV. Got any of these and want to try it out ? Let me know in the comments.

After 4 weeks, the reconstruction of our apartment is ALMOST done. Lot’s of new colors, corners, cabinet, kitchen and, most importantly, gadgets (Like our Elica Twin kitchenhood and our Busch-Jaeger Touchpanel).

Final details are most likely done next week, but we can live in our house again!

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