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I'll be moving into my new flat in the new year and as my computer will be in the spare bedroom I want to be able to listen to my mp3's and watch videos on my living room TV which will have a surround sound system connected to it.
I'm thinking I've got 2 options which are:-
Get a wireless media streamer for my mp3's or a box that could have all of my mp3's on a hard drive that would connect to my TV and I could play them that way. For video's I could a get a HDMI upscaling DVD player that can play Divx/Xvid and has a USB connection on it so I could connect my external hard drive and play the video's that way.
OR
Get an all-in-one media streamer that would play both mp3's and videos and would connect to my TV, again either wireless or hard drive based
I don't mind if the media streamer in either case is wireless or hard drive based but can't really be wired as it'll be in another room & I don't want to run a wire that far.
As for the mp3 side of things I would like a good on screen GUI as when I've tried playing mp3's on my DVD player due to the way it displays the root folders etc you only get abot 8 characters for the filenames so if its got (track number)_-_(track name) there are times when you can't tell what the song is called as very few characters are displayed.
I would prefer a HDMI connection if it was to play videos as my new TV has got 3 HDMI connections and the component connection will be taken up by my Wii or Sky. Also if its connected by HDMI then I connect my TV to my surround sound by optical out then I'm assuming I would get better audio than via non HDMI.
I will also be having wireless broadband via a router if that has any implications having 2 wireless units in the flat.
Has anyone got any ideas on what I could get with a budget of £200 maximum?
Cheers
I'm thinking I've got 2 options which are:-
Get a wireless media streamer for my mp3's or a box that could have all of my mp3's on a hard drive that would connect to my TV and I could play them that way. For video's I could a get a HDMI upscaling DVD player that can play Divx/Xvid and has a USB connection on it so I could connect my external hard drive and play the video's that way.
OR
Get an all-in-one media streamer that would play both mp3's and videos and would connect to my TV, again either wireless or hard drive based
I don't mind if the media streamer in either case is wireless or hard drive based but can't really be wired as it'll be in another room & I don't want to run a wire that far.
As for the mp3 side of things I would like a good on screen GUI as when I've tried playing mp3's on my DVD player due to the way it displays the root folders etc you only get abot 8 characters for the filenames so if its got (track number)_-_(track name) there are times when you can't tell what the song is called as very few characters are displayed.
I would prefer a HDMI connection if it was to play videos as my new TV has got 3 HDMI connections and the component connection will be taken up by my Wii or Sky. Also if its connected by HDMI then I connect my TV to my surround sound by optical out then I'm assuming I would get better audio than via non HDMI.
I will also be having wireless broadband via a router if that has any implications having 2 wireless units in the flat.
Has anyone got any ideas on what I could get with a budget of £200 maximum?
Cheers
