Soldato
Cloud based storage
Yeah what about home movies photos etc...that you want to share around the house?
Naps or home server is where it's at.
Until my favourite shows and movies can be streamed in full bluray quality for both video and audio from services like Netflix i'll keep using mine. It's the audio that bugs me the most tbh.
Personally streaming is no good for me, I want films in the highest possible quality with the HD audio intact and music in lossless format.
I don't think anyone currently offers it. Last time I tried streaming a film it was awful.
As already mentioned above a few times, quality is probably the most important reason for me to have my own media locally.
This for me
Previously it was more.. Ie. 1mbit inet made it a must (fibre this next month.. Yay)
But you can't properly stream 1080p full HD DTS MA 5.1
So blu ray rips it is
All these points for me. It irks me when i have good quality floorstanders and surround speakers yet my AV receiver or speakers aren't being used to their full potential, so i go with high quality 5.1 / 7.1 local media stored on hdd's.
It amazes me how many people spend a grand on a telly, yet they only use their crappy tv speakers or some crap £150 HTIB system. The way i see it is, if you spend that amount of dosh on the picture, do it justice and have good audio along with high quality content to watch. Why settle for less
All these points for me. It irks me when i have good quality floorstanders and surround speakers yet my AV receiver or speakers aren't being used to their full potential, so i go with high quality 5.1 / 7.1 local media stored on hdd's.
It amazes me how many people spend a grand on a telly, yet they only use their crappy tv speakers or some crap £150 HTIB system. The way i see it is, if you spend that amount of dosh on the picture, do it justice and have good audio along with high quality content to watch. Why settle for less
Yes.
I've used a few and Netflix is the only one that can reliably give me a 720p stream, providing nobody else is using the internet at the time. It'd be great if these services would allow you to pre-buffer or download but I guess they have no need to.