I fell into Powerdvd before I even know of Arcsoft....so I'm sort of stuck there (after $100!!). It does the job, but I hear a lot of folks saying they like TMT better. Probably would be the place to start if at the beginning.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one going nuts. :)

On 10/22/2011 2:53 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Welcome to the club!!   I'm using whs (original not 03) and am just crossing 
32tb this weekend.  Once you start archiving.. Interesting on pdvd.  I ended up 
preferring Arcsoft TMT, but whichever way you go.

I generally don't care for isos. Don't need the menus.  So I use a lot of 
MakeMkv and mediabrowser

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony Q. Martin"<[email protected]>
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:28:07
To:<[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: [H] HTPCs and Network Streaming

I have gone nuts over this...it's like the most exciting PC type thing
I've come across in a long time.

I'm using MyMovies, Windows Media Center, PowerDVD11 Ultra and Windows 7
homegroup to make this work.

My old PC with the Q9550 Quad Core Processor is doing server duties.
Currently it has 17 TB of movie/TV series storage with another 3 TB to
come online this weekend and another 3 TB coming. At that point, the old
box I had will be filled to capacity. [I did notice that HD prices
started climbing the other day, so I bought that other 3TB as I found
only one place with a half-way decent price.]  Not sure how to expand
beyond there...not even sure I want to. 23TB seems like a lot of storage
to me, but I'm sure some of you folks have way more than that.

Right now, I have some 356 titles loaded up.  Most of them are blu-rays
in ISO format.  Some are regular DVDs...I have a few MKVs but I prefer
just to rip straight BD to ISO as it is less effort overall. MyMovies is
a very slick and powerful backend for Windows Media Center. It doesn't
"look" as good as XMBC but I think it is easier to use and more powerful
(or just as powerful).  Just about all of my Blu-ray collection resides
online but most of my DVD collection does not.  I have a hard time
watching DVDs anymore.

I need a means to catalog what is stored where.  If a disc crashes, my
play is just to rebuild that disc from optical media.

It was totally worth the effect to run that Cat6 cable this summer.
Trying to stream blu-ray any way other than over gigabit is hopeless.

Funny thing is I don't watch movies has much as you'd think based on
having this setup.  I just like having the option has having it dirt
simple to get to my stuff.

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