The Gross-Out: You People Are Disgusting :ahhh:

[deadlegion]

And as deadlegion always says: use your consoles to play movies.

That's the wrong hole.

[Zaladane]

Pi is sounding more and more pointless by the minute

[Ace Ventura]

Pi is sounding more and more pointless by the minute

To some, probably.

[Gypsy]

Pi 3 is like $100au that could be put towards consoles, or another HDD I don't spend money on PC stuff besides large HDDs.

Xbone S regularly goes on sale for around $250-270au now which is probably what I should get next. But maybe wait until it gets cheaper still.

PS4 Pro price probably won't shift for 3 years Nintendo nothing will happen...never did for Wii U right up until it vanished retail and now people demand crazy prices for them.
Vita/PS TV is the same.

At least all the games are free on Wii U.

PSTV was clearanced for $20 here. Vita has never been cheap though.

The Pi is definitely not powerful enough to play BDs. It can't even run N64 games.

I just like it so I don't have to pull out my PS1, SNES, NES, or anything retro to play my games on. And it only takes up the HDMI port on my TV.

If this is your only use for it a Wii accomplishes the same task but better and is cheaper.

[deadlegion]

BD players are cheap as piss honestly. I picked up a compact one for $2.50 and a 3D player for $5 this summer. Both w/ remote. Neither is a great player but they function. I don't really use either though, I just use my PS4 like a twat. If I were really going to use a standalone player it'd be a pricey one. The PS4 is better than either of these other players sans the remote.

You can get RF BD/DVD players here for under $100au, they have DLNA and everything. Maybe the only things they can't do are SACD and DVD-A but I don't care.
Nothing wrong with them I have one, as well as my old original player that is BD region locked (that has PS3 fat laser unit in it).

[Gypsy]

*lifts leg*

[Gypsy]

If I get a standalone BD player it's going to be an older oppo. Have been using oppos (recently upgraded to a 980H) as my main dvd player for 3+ years now and love them.

[Tassadar]

Looks like you do some interesting things with it. There's a difference between an electronics hobby and trying to playing Pokemons on it

It scratches an itch that I have for messing with things, I'll be honest though the only lasting use I have for it is as a seedbox for torrents because it drains very little power, however it is limited in ethernet speed so it doesn't function very well as one. But again it costs next to nothing so you can't expect top level quality.

[Zaladane]

God I hate High Seas Fortress. How am I supposed to chain kills if no one shows up for 30+ seconds.

[deadlegion]

If I get a standalone BD player it's going to be an older oppo. Have been using oppos (recently upgraded to a 980H) as my main dvd player for 3+ years now and love them.

That's pricey stuff though dude. The 2 I have are good enough for me atm.
I'll probably get an Xbone S before I have a 4k tv or standalone 4k player.
Who knows, might end up using an S for 4k BD...

[Gypsy]

That's pricey stuff though dude. The 2 I have are good enough for me atm.
I'll probably get an Xbone S before I have a 4k tv or standalone 4k player.
Who knows, might end up using an S for 4k BD...

Yeah, that's why I haven't bought one yet.

I've also got some Lumagen processors on the ole eventually list.

[deadlegion]

It scratches an itch that I have for messing with things, I'll be honest though the only lasting use I have for it is as a seedbox for torrents because it drains very little power, however it is limited in ethernet speed so it doesn't function very well as one. But again it costs next to nothing so you can't expect top level quality.

Less power than a 11.3" dual core laptop? I'm assuming the Pi doesn't have a display.

[Gypsy]

VP50Pro is nice enough that it's not a huge priority. Really helps dvds.

[Tassadar]

Less power than a 11.3" dual core laptop? I'm assuming the Pi doesn't have a display.

Well assuming a laptop takes about 65W a pi3 takes 5W I believe, or that is the recommended amount for a pi3 so yes, a lot less power.

[deadlegion]

Well assuming a laptop takes about 65W a pi3 takes 5W I believe, or that is the recommended amount for a pi3 so yes, a lot less power.

65w is max though dude, it only draws what it needs. Your 5w doesn't account for a display at all, and the laptop doesn't have network or resource issues.