I saw one at the store from Creative that was rather vague in its box description but it kind of implied you could do it from a computer. If I remember right it at least had a display on your remote control so that you could use it for scrolling through music over being in front of the television. The reason controlling from a computer or something other than the television appeals to me is because all of our stereo equipment and TV is upstairs but we do spend a lot of time downstairs. Our upstairs game room is "open" to the downstairs so something playing up there does not have to be extreme volumes or anything to listen to it and we always have a laptop downstairs on the network. I know if it is done through a remote control you can at least get the little relay boxes so that your remotes can be anywhere in the house and still function. I would not mind having a NAS for all the kids videos though. We tend to copy their DVDs to the computer so that we have a backup when they do end up breaking or scratching the originals. Would be even better to just store a few hundred gigs of movies and just play from the network and box up the original media. I do not follow this whole home entertainment stuff much at all though. Heck our TV downstairs, which has been unplugged for months is still an old two knob unit. The "better one" upstairs is one of those Mickey Mouse kid televisions with matching DVD player. On 8/18/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure about that... NONE of the ones I've dealt with can be > "controlled" from any computer at all in fact. > > The computer is simply a file server - you mark directories as accessible > to > the device and that's that. That's what makes these small self-contained > RAID arrays so attractive: they've got the server software built-in so you > get a HUGE storage capacity that can be used on your networked media > player > without having the computer turned on at all. > > The media device will give you an interface which allows you to navigate > those shared folders (whether from a computer or a RAID box) and play > media > (for the video-based players this is usually still pictures, audio and > video). > > As far as control they're no better or worse than any entertainment > device: > an IR remote. Don't expect to get any more control over one of these > devices than you already have over your DVD player or Stereo. > > Jim Davis > > > > >
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