We tried it - iXtreamer, the digital omnipotent
Once upon a time, where there wasn't, not long ago, but not lately, so not as long ago as when horseshoes rumbled on the Chain Bridge, but not yesterday, but sometime between the two, but still closer to yesterday, so sometime lately a few years when…
Well, let's start over, because I'm confused about that. So, a few years ago, when DivX compression was in its infancy, and when our more affluent and, of course, mostly money-making compatriots were already chewing on the first part of the Matrix downloaded from the net, it might have become more serious that they might be slow to find a solution. simply transfer digital content to your TV.
At the time, more precisely in a few years, when…, na it is good not to go deeper into this, it should be enough that in a few years there were already two solutions to this. Desktop DivX players (which of course could play DVDs) and the first more normal HTPCs. The former was a simple and inexpensive solution, the latter was expensive but universal, meaning we could use it for many more tasks, let alone play on the TV screen. This was a serious thing when we worried about the modern display label for 14-inch cathode-ray tube monitors with a resolution of 1024 × 768.
Then the years passed again, we moved further and further away from the horse lemons found on the Chain Bridge, and in the meantime the forint-denominated, forint-denominated price of the storage space, the storage bins, fell under the frog's butt, so much so that we tried to convert gigabytes to megabytes. This not-so-important fact has fundamentally revolutionized the world of players and our needs. I ask who likes to write movies on a disc when a cheaper hard drive can hold hundreds of songs. We’re already lazy to slowly delete them, preferring to buy a new hard drive if the previous one is full.
However, the change in recent years has not only been in this, it would not have been enough to fundamentally change our image of home media players and the demands placed on them. Computing has developed a great deal in two important things. One is the proliferation of the Internet and broadband access, the other is the turbulent development of home networks, especially wireless networks.
These three things have completely upset the world. The content you want to watch and listen to no longer has to be on the computer next to the TV, it can be anywhere in the apartment or in the world, we can access them and expose them on the TV screen. We can watch online TV shows, watch what’s happening on NASA live, say what’s on the International Space Station, or shoot a serial space shuttle - I think they’re not shot anymore - we can watch weather forecasts with live satellite or radar imagery, but we can also use our online video library if we can't find a good show on TV in the evening.
Who would have seriously thought 10-15 years ago that we would get this far? Sure, we wanted to, we dreamed about it, but you would have believed that now, today, you’re sitting here in front of your machine’s flat panel display, and if you feel like it, you’re watching an online broadcast or listening to the radio or seeing how many minutes it is worth a storm to you?
It only takes one thing to make it all really comfortable and not have to crouch in front of a monitor. And this thing is a lovable media player that we can put in the living room next to the flat screen TV. Now I want to introduce you to such a structure!
