In the living room besides a DVD player and a Cable DVR, I
have a media player box that can play video files from USB
devices (flash, hard disk), supposedly from a shared folder
on the network (I have yet to test this) and streams from
the Internet (YouTube, Netflix etc.).

I've just discovered that I can also play video files on my
mobile phone.  I've experimented with games consoles and
tablets like the iPad too.  What devices do you use to play
video and what do you like or dislike about them?

1 responses total.

I only use my PC for video.  I don't own a TV.  But the one major thing I
dislike is Digital Restrictions Management.  I prefer open video formats where
available.

I casually view most video content on Youtube.  Recently adobe updated their
last Linux 32-bit Flash player, which began using the SSE instruction set and
broke youtube on many models of desktop computers, including mine at home.
I can't wait for HTML5 to become predominant on youtube, and other sites that
have Flash content.

For local content, I use VLC and I am very happy with it's performance.  I
wasn't able to play sotre-bought DVDs without installing the libdvdcss2
decryption plug-in, but after that it worked fine.

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