Digital Media Viewers

[GTom]

almost finished putting in 300m worth of Cat6 (builders tape and washers FTW!) through the house, Part of the reason for doing that is to get a stable connection to some sort of DMV to view files of the computers we have in the house on a TV stopping short of getting a media based box.

I'm currently looking at the WD Live TV which has Ethernet support which is a plus, the reviews I've come across seems to be pretty good. Does anyone have experience with these and / or suggest another solution?

[Treza360]

Not sure if it's exactly what you want, but I have a Beyonwiz DP-S1 PVR. Twin HD tuners and a 200GB HDD (upgradeable if you're game). EPG is via Ice-TV and you can set stuff up to record via their internet site. It also has inbuilt Ethernet connectivity and playback for DivX, XviD, WMV, MPG4, MkV etc.

Picture and music playback is not as good as I'd like but the thing is stable. I think they're still a little pricey though.

www.beyonwiz.com.au

Cheers,
Trent

[GTom]

Thanks trent,

Although I'm after a completely different thing.

The WD Live TV thing doesn't have an inbuilt harddrive. what it does is:

TV - WD Live - Network and/or External Hard Drive.

So you can view photos, play music or watch movie files from a shared folder on a PC or from an external hard drive....

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...sp?DriveID=735

[Treza360]

Yeah the Beyonwiz is more of a HD recorder with lots of media center capabilities as opposed to a "pure" DMV. However it does have the facilities that you're after, all the playback I specified from my previous post can all be streamed directly from shared folders on PCs or I can plug my portable HDD straight into its' USB port.

The WD you're looking at looks to have internet playback as well which would be awesome. Can't look to closely at the moment as I'm capped. Time to change ISPs I think.

Just another option for you though.

Cheers,
Trent

[Peter Jones]

I Like the DVICO suff.

http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/productList.aspx

Pete

[GTom]

Yeah the Beyonwiz is more of a HD recorder with lots of media center capabilities as opposed to a "pure" DMV. However it does have the facilities that you're after, all the playback I specified from my previous post can all be streamed directly from shared folders on PCs or I can plug my portable HDD straight into its' USB port.

Ahh have to admit I didn't realize that... Probably something I don't want just yet, just want a standalone for the time being.

I Like the DVICO suff.

http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/productList.aspx

Pete

Thanks pete that's what I'm after.

[dubbed]

We use a media centre at home. It's basically a slim PC that has the functionality of a computer but automatically loads up XBMC (XBox Media Centre) which is apparently the best in the biz. It links to all our computers - both wired and wirelessly - plays DVD/Blu Ray, music, video, everything. The best thing about it is the info you can capture. For example all our movies are linked to the IMDB database that gives you cover art, poster art, info/synopsis, user rating, etc, etc.