Hi,
Looking for some advice re which is the best bang for buck for christmas pressy!
At the moment, I have mainly sonos and xbox360 with a nas as my main audio/video servers (bass is buffaloe linkstation 250g hard drive and full!!), so it is in need of some updating.
Here is a wish list of what I want to be able to do
1) Stream media from storage to my main tv.
2) Add additional devices later to allow me to stream to other tv's
3) Control devices remotely via iphone etc
At the moment, I can use xbox360 to stream media from NAS, but need to turn on my windows pc to do so.
Here are a couple of options/solutions that I was thinking of
1) Windows home server. Will allow me to store and stream to xbox360 and other devices as I add them to the network.
2) A higher spec NAS box that will allow me stream from it to the xbox
3) A htpc such as the acer revo3610 or dell zino!
Option 3 i think may be preferrable as it is maybe more flexible an optiion ? I als have comfort with cwm, so was thinking that a htpc could host an easier home control solution with comfort etc.
For iphone control, was looking at one of the keene electornins ethernet/ir devices in addition to one of the 3 options above!
My budget is max 500 euro.
or I could get an ipad :-)
Really appreciate some assitance/advice/pros/cons etc
Looking for some advice re which is the best bang for buck for christmas pressy!
At the moment, I have mainly sonos and xbox360 with a nas as my main audio/video servers (bass is buffaloe linkstation 250g hard drive and full!!), so it is in need of some updating.
Here is a wish list of what I want to be able to do
1) Stream media from storage to my main tv.
2) Add additional devices later to allow me to stream to other tv's
3) Control devices remotely via iphone etc
At the moment, I can use xbox360 to stream media from NAS, but need to turn on my windows pc to do so.
Here are a couple of options/solutions that I was thinking of
1) Windows home server. Will allow me to store and stream to xbox360 and other devices as I add them to the network.
2) A higher spec NAS box that will allow me stream from it to the xbox
3) A htpc such as the acer revo3610 or dell zino!
Option 3 i think may be preferrable as it is maybe more flexible an optiion ? I als have comfort with cwm, so was thinking that a htpc could host an easier home control solution with comfort etc.
For iphone control, was looking at one of the keene electornins ethernet/ir devices in addition to one of the 3 options above!
My budget is max 500 euro.
or I could get an ipad :-)
Really appreciate some assitance/advice/pros/cons etc
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