Mac alternative to "Play On"?

Has anyone found a Mac alternative to "Play On" other than using Parallels? I don't have PCs in the house, only iMac and MacBooks and would prefer not to buy one!

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do. I have two setups at home that allow me to watch media from my Mac on my TVs.
Downstairs in my den, I have a PS3 connected to my home network. I use MediaLink on the Mac to stream media files to the PS3.
Upstairs in my master bedroom, I use a Western Digital WDTV Live Streaming Media Player to do the same thing. It too works with MediaLink on the Mac. It can also work with a free media server called Serviio.
Both the PS3 and the WDTV can work wirelessly via wifi, but can choke on high bitrate 1080p video. Standard definition and lower bitrate 720p usually stream okay via wifi. A wired connection gives better results. For wifi you will need a wireless router. You can't go wireless from the Mac directly to the PS3 or WDTV.
You may also want to consider Apple TV. I decided against it as it does not support 1080p and does not have the option of local storage.

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Repost: brand new mac won't play/recognise/mount audio-cd's

No idea what's going on here. I posted a question which I will paste below. Someone posted some suggestions for me (Dave Sawyer if I remember the name correctly, thanks again!) which lead me to ask wheter I was or was not supposed to have a file named cd info.cidb in a certain folder.
Now all of a sudden my thread is gone and I find the following mail in my inbox:
NoName posted "Re: brand new mac won't play/recognise/mount audio-cd's" in "brand new mac won't play/recognise/mount audio-cd's" on Aug 1, 2008 4:21:01 PM.
You wouldn't have that file unless you used iTunes to get CD metadata from Gracenote. I hate Gracenote, therefore I have never had that file on my system
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The origial question post was the following:
Hi all!
I am totally new to the macbussines (got one for a month now) and not using cd's much I never tried importing one untill today... and it simply won't. I think it's supposed to show the audio-cd on the desktop and give me an 'import cd' button in itunes whenever I insert an audioCD right?
It won't do... it'll take it in, turn it a few times and slide it right out again.
What I tried so far:
* toying with itunes settings for importing (import cd & eject, show CD, ask to import cd etc)
* toying with the cd&dvd preferences under system preferences
* click the mount 'button' in disk utility as was suggested in all those threads regarding cd's not mounting first time (my cd's won't mount the second or 30th time either)
* resetting the PRAM
Nothing so far.
It does recognise DVD's but no audio cd's whatsoever, originals, burned ones. You name it. As I don't use CD's a lot the newest CD dates from 2003, but that can't be it, can it?
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated...
o/
Am I going para? Where did my post go? It's totally gone, not even under 'my posts' or anywhere...
Still no solution either... suggestions still welcome therefor

My guess is that someone didn't like that I said I didn't like Gracenote.
Anyway, I Googled for your thread and luckily found it intact in the iTunes for Windows forum and posted a condensed reply there for you.

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