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Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:37 pm
by Xmantium
Guys Lifehacker has done an article for the Best Desktop Media Server again - http://lifehacker.com/5975362/five-best ... ia-servers
PS3 Media Server won last time... probably because Serviio wasnt in the choices!

Please vote for SERVIIO!! :D

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:29 pm
by Xmantium
Serviio currently third, vote still not over!
C'mon we need your votes! :)

These 5 were chosen by the public for nominations a week earlier so i think Serviio done very well to get nominated!

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:11 pm
by NX3
All good exposure as well on a popular site like Lifehacker....

keep voting !

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:35 pm
by Xmantium
Serviio Users - Vote now!! Sony Homestream giving free prizes if Serviio gets to the top!!
https://twitter.com/SonyHomestream

@SonyHomestream
If Serviio wins, we'll give away a 40" BRAVIA. 2nd it's a Blu-ray Home Theatre Kit. 3rd its a Blu-ray player. We can do this!

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:25 pm
by Xmantium
Poll closed, thought it's gonna last for a week!
Serviio came third! Excellent results

Plex coming from the popular XBMC source won, which I think is odd as they just introduced transcoding in DNLA two months ago, most of its users use the Media Centre than DNLA streaming.
And PS3MS being second, clearly the users haven't tried Serviio, like me I switched over.

This is very good exposure, even the Lifehacker editors didn't know about Serviio until when asking for nominations from its users.

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 2:06 pm
by atc98092
I tried Plex and could never get it to work right. Maybe a functional version could beat Serviio, but not in my book. Install Serviio and it just works.

Of all the different products I tried, nothing was a simple to get up and running as Serviio. While I liked the ability to view/modify the library that some products have, that always took a back seat to basic functionality. If I have a problem with getting a computer program to work, there's something wrong with the program. No brag, just a fact of life. :lol:

Re: Vote for Serviio on Lifehacker

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 4:22 pm
by slyguy42o
I voted a couple of times :)

I used ps3ms for awhile before I switched over to Serviio.. ps3ms seemed to be a cpu hog, transcoding everything that it could and stuttering alot on 1080's. it also didn't support my new TV at all even though there was supposedly a profile for the model i have.

With Serviio.. I had to do a bit of tweaking but my new TV works great and I also dig the DVD covers and thumbnail support for xbox. also for some reason cpu usage is way lower than ps3ms when streaming to most devices.