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DracoFelis
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NetFlix Player

OK, it was too tempting. Rather than work on hooking up my laptop to stream to TVs in the house, I went and ordered the new (just announced/released a few days ago) stand alone "Netflix Player" ( »www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ ).

After shipping charges, it came to just around $120 (one time charge, with no extra monthly NetFlix charges beyond what I'm already paying). I haven't got the thing yet, but tracking info suggests it should arrive next Tuesday. Granted the player is NetFlix only (I still have to use a PC to watch HULU, for example), but that NetFlix player looks really easy to setup by a TV (much easier than a computer, and I don't have to tie up my laptop with this option).

Initially, I'll probably have the thing hooked up to the TV in the living room. However, I'm planning to order a RF low pass filter (to isolate my own generated "channels" from the cable system outside the house), and a stereo modulator that can be set to use the high/unused cable channels (so I can put the output of the NetFlix player onto my own custom "cable channel" in the house). If all works as planned, I'll then be able to feed the NetFlix player output into the modulator, instead of the TV directly. In theory, this should mean that the output of the NetFlix Player should be viewable on ALL the TVs in the house (due to the modulator adding a custom "channel" to the cable TV already wired in my home). We'll still have to go to the living room (where the NetFlix Player box will physically reside) to choose what we want watch (via the remote control for the NetFlix Player), but once that is done we should (in theory, after getting everything setup) be able to view that NetFlix streaming from all TVs in the house.

I'll keep people informed about how it all works out...
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