Keegs Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Hi all, I am thinking about buying a media center but I really dont know the first thing about them, can anyone give any tips? At home I have my own PC in my stufy and the two kids have their own PCs which are wireless connected and I have another PC for P2P which I hardly use (& its old) Anyway we have a host of music on each PC which they download and a complete selection of home videos and photos on seperate harddisk in my PC. What I was thinking of doing is having a media center in the study and copy all media files (music, pictures, video, etc) to the media PC and set it up as a server so that we can all copy the media files to one central point and just share the drive out between us and use it for editing. Lastly then create a wireless connection from the TV downstairs to the media center so look at it all. So is there a media center out there that basically does that and is that what they are really for? Can anyone give me an ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Using a remote drive for video editting will most likely be a painfully slow experience. For actual Media Center systems, I have my own home-built system I'm very happy with running Vista Ultimate and my parents have an Acer iDea 500, although the iDea 510 has since been released and offers a big improvement in 3D power, its enough to play games at reasonable detail. With mine since I'm running Vista Ultimate on all my systems I have a Buffalo Linkstation 400GB Network Attached Storage device attached to my network, and Vista is set to see the Music and Video shares on this as each machines own My Music and My Video directories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fingermouse Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 i got one of these but put my own hd in it http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=5473&category_id=280 think you can network them justI havnt done so yet, i use it to put tv shows on that i have missed and watch them on my lcd downstairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 TVersity and an XBox360 connected to your TV. http://www.tversity.com/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keegs Posted March 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 eeer have my PS3 on order, any day now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 [ QUOTE ] eeer have my PS3 on order, any day now! [/ QUOTE ] I'm so sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 I'm planning on cancelling my PS3 order and getting an Xbox 360 instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 I have many high-end laptops, but last October bought a Mac Mini with an Iomega MiniMax 250GB external firewire/USB drive as my media hub. It is about to get another 250 or 500GB drive attached to it soon too. I have iTunes for my library (all ripped CDs), Elgato EyeTV for my digital high-def TV and VLC as my media player for TV shows and films that mysteriously appear on digital media (dragged out of the dark recesses of the 'net). I'm very happy with it - haven't been able to make it work hard yet (though Handbrake doing MPEG 2 to MP4 conversions gets close), and have had a troublefree and easy to use experience so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamD Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 I use a Mac Mini with Elgato EyeTV too - absolutely fantastic. Tiny, noise free, and very stylish. And added bonus is that I can set recordings over the web Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 [ QUOTE ] eeer have my PS3 on order, any day now! [/ QUOTE ] Okay, PS3 and TVersity then The PS3 supports streaming of music, video and photos although I don't know anyone who has done it yet it should work, if it doesn't it won't be long before it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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