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Video Streaming List is a site dedicated to everything to do with video streaming, we assess and review all the latest equipment you can use to download or stream video to watch at home or on the move, and in future we will cover the software aspect, including what you need to read and convert different file formats, and to use YouTube !

And once you have the equipment, we point you in the direction of some of the best tv content you can get on the Internet, reviewed and asssed by ourselves !

You dont have to have a great technical knowledge, but some technical knowledge is inevitably going to be useful !!

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Choosing a home video streaming set top box player can be a complicated process. There are lots of things to consider. Are you going to be playing videos directly from the web or from your home pc, or from a network hard drive NAS.

You also need to decide whether you can lay a cable to hook the player with a network Ethernet cable or whether you have to use it wirelessly.

Is gaming important, if so you can take advantage of consoles such as the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, both of which are very good network video players.

Is a DVD drive important. Some video streaming network video players have a DVD drive built in.
So there are a lot of options to consider and there is no device that does it all.

Wireless VS Wired

Ok so having your video streaming set top box wireless is cool and very convenient.
If you want to stream video in HD forget it. Very few boxes can do this and it wont wotk all the time. Even the Apple TV box with it’s draft-n Wi-Fi can’t even stream a HD quicktime movie trailer. That was using a draft-n Wi-Fi router just 10 meters away!!!

Only the Xbox seems to play HD ok playing a full WM-HD clip flawlessly. Most other players seem to play fine for a few seconds then start to stutter and pause or go jerky all the way through.

So if you want HD you have to use a good old fashioned cable. However there is a workaround.

If you can’t use a cable you could use a pair of Home Plug adapters and use your mains wiring instead of running a long network cable. Plug one adapter in to a spare mains wall socket near your router and plug the other one in near your set top box.
They come in two different speeds so make shore you get the 85mb/sec HomePlugs that will be fast enough for HD. Alternatively you could just buy a network video player that has a USB socket on it so you can just plug a hard drive or pen drive in and away you go.

File Formats

Not all video streaming players play all files formats. DivX and Xvid which are the most conmen video formats on the web wont play on Apple TV. Most other video streaming players will play these formats but might not play Quicktime. So you need to work out what’s important for you.

Practical Considerations

When choosing a player try to match the audio video connections to that of your TV and hi-fi. HDMI is the best choice since it is HD and digital and carries audio and video in one lead. If your TV is older the best choice is component but you will need to connect the audio separately. Most older TV’s only have scart sockets which carry audio and video. The video signal can be set for RGB on some TV’s this will give the best picture. This needs to be set ion the player menu and the TV’s menu.

Do you mind a device that has a fan or a hard drive wering away inside it. Some players such as the Xbox have fans which in a quiet room can be annoying.