Beginning with the 2014/2015 school year, all district classrooms feature a recycled laptop as a XBMC tuner. The tuners can play DVDs, but not VHS, and can also access a SCASD video library.

WHY?

• Cable is gone, plan is to not replace any dvd/vcrs

• Comcast has changed to digital cable and we are not renewing/upgrading (cost prohibitive).

• Access to on-demand library that we have chosen to upload

• Live broadcast channels by request

• Kahn academy, Youtube and other resources

• Weather

What are the disadvantages?

• Copyright--not all VHS tapes can be copied
  

• Cable management

• Can’t upload personally purchased video

Tutorial here