Please help someone with no idea - NAS type media adaptor thingies

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 00:18

I want to set up something on my LAN which allows me to play media files on my TV

do I need a NAS box and/or something else

sorry if I sound clueless but I am

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:02

thanks folks

so if I were to get something like this

WDTV 1TB Live Hub Media centre

that would be everything I need, I just connect wirelessly to my network and vis HDMI to my TV and evrything is good ?

is wireless ok or would I be better using a cabled connection ?

just a though, it would be hard wored to my TV so the wireless is just data aceess over the network, it wouldnt strem over netwrok so wouldn't matter , is that correct ?

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 11:03

MrLOL said:
the best NAS devices that do media streaming are ones from

Qnap

I'd look at one of the Two bay Home Devices like the TS-212

And from Synology

And for synology, have a look at their Home/ Small Office 2 bay NAS the 211j

Or the WD TV thing mentioned above.

with these things as opposed to the WDTV would I need something else to connect to the TV

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 12:12

cheers

the WDTV 1TB doesn't have wirelless anyway unless you use usb adaptor

so I am heading towards the WCTV 1TB as that seems an easy solution, as I right that this is all I need and a way to connect to netowrk ?

my TV is nowhere near the router but I do have a poweline thing which is behind the TV and used to connect a slingbox to the router

could I just put a cheap 4 port ethernet hub attached to the powerline and connect the slingbox and media server to that ?

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 15:46

rafster said:
Boxee box, I love mines

looks great for stuff like 4od and iplayer but from what I can see I would need NAS boc as well and so would end up costing about 300, the WDTV has the NAS type storage built in

looked at the xstreamer but can't really tell if it's what i need or not

Rotty · 8 Mar 2011 at 21:45

Simple does it for me

shame it doesn't do iPlayer etc

Rotty · 26 Mar 2011 at 13:51

borich_planner said:
WDTV Live with 2tb hard drive is perfect. 24/7 on and can be accessed from all pcs in the house.

would like something that does iplayer etc , dont think that one does

Rotty · 31 Mar 2011 at 21:49

dmpoole said:
Hurrah, at last.

3rd WMP74 arrived and fully working.
Still not as good as my Sony BDP-S370 though.

just installed a WMP74, put a USB disk I had kicking round on it and a 8 quid wireless adaptor, does everything I need it to do and at under 70 quid for everything you can't got wrong

Rotty · 31 Mar 2011 at 22:57

one thing I have noticed with the VMP74 and a USB drive, it is desperately slow when copying stuff too it over the wireless network, anyone else find it slow ?

seems to stream iplayer etc fine though

Rotty · 1 Apr 2011 at 10:58

having real problems with the WMP74 keep dropping off the wireless network, when it drops it won't find the router on a scan :mad:

Rotty · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:08

siege2 said:
have you tried to place a laptop or another wireless device in the same place as the WMP74to see if its the signal problem or could there be a update to the unit for fixes etc?

Kenneth

I sit with laptop very close to it all the time with no problems, firmware is at latest, I have a powerline unit nearby, might just put a cheap switch on that and use it wired

Rotty · 1 Apr 2011 at 12:23

siege2 said:
it may be that the wireless signal is to low, so that the WMP74 is not able to play back the files properly?

Kenneth

it's more than low it doesn't find the router on te scan but when it does work the signal is good