Apple had the right idea with their Apple TV ($99), but (at the time) it didn’t have a lot of supporting apps, local streaming appeared to be tied to iTunes, and it didn’t natively support DivX/XviD files (99% of my video collection). I began researching “meda streaming devices” late last year and found several that did “almost” what I wanted.
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And I didn’t want to have to deal with the noise and the heat and the upkeep of a PC in the bedroom - plus, again, the cost of putting together a PC to do what I want would be more than what the payoff is worth to me. I didn’t want to put a PlayStation 3 in there because (a) I would never play games in there, (b) the ability to watch movies in my bedroom isn’t worth $300 to me, and (c) I’m kind of sour on Sony at the moment. Unfortunately, up until yesterday, I had no way to stream media into my bedroom. In the living room, this is performed by Pivo, my PC-Based DVR. Upstairs, this is performed via a PlayStation 3. To stream media from the server, you need a UPnP client. (Everything that matters gets backed up to two locations stuff that barely matters only gets backed up to one.) The media server acts as a UPnP Server, running Twonky. The majority of my movies, music and photographs are now stored digitally and reside on my media server.
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