As it happens, I'm in the market for such a device (video equivalent to SB) at the moment. I'm planning to build a new media server which, as well as storing my music library and running slimserver, will contain my DVD collection and a bunch of other video material. This is of course only feasible now that 750GB+ discs are a reasonable price.
The impetus for doing this was that - having cleared my living room of CDs some time ago - I'm getting annoyed by having a pile of DVDs build up instead! Candidate devices include: Netgear EVA8000 Linksys KISS 1600 (also includes DVD player) DViCO TViX M5100SH/M4100SH Popcornhour Network Media Tank Of course none of these are exactly equivalent to the SB, this is very much an immature market. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I end up dumping the first device I buy for something better in a year or so's time - but the main investment is going to be in the server, and in my time setting up the content, so I'm not too bothered about that. It should also be pointed out that all of these devices also play music, so are in a sense competitors to the SB: audio quality is obviously not a priority, so I guess many current users will be happy to keep both, but I am sure that the mass market will only want one such device in their living room. There's yet another direction for Logitech to be looking at...... (lets say, start with a Netgear EVA8000, add a small display, add Slimserver support, put a half-decent DAC in - $500 anyone?) avforums (UK bias) covers this sort of thing, amongst many others. Ceejay -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40689 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
