Howdy folks,
I've been a long time reader here on AVS, and it has certainly be helpful; now I have a dilemma though, and thought asking the most experienced people in the world what I should do. We recently renovated our living room and I purchased both a Panasonic TX-L47DT50 and a Bose CineMate 1 SR. Until now, I had various blu-rays laying around, and numerous movies stored on my NAS (an old 1 slot Synology diskstation) in various qualities ranging from HDTV copies (made myself.) and copies of blurays in 720p and 1080p. (The 1080p ones taking up a lot of space at about 15GB/movie) The copies on the NAS were served via DLNA and the actual discs went in my PS3.
I decided I wanted to have uniformity and invest in either blu-ray discs of all movies I want OR a new NAS with more storage and the power to serve 1080p without hiccups OR a HTPC to do the same. Since the new television is of high quality, I wouldn't want any less than 1080p. So my question is; what would be the best way of doing things whilst keeping the cost as low as possible?
I can buy my blu-rays off Zavvi, which'll make them cheaper than buying them here in Belgium but it would still be 10€/disc at minimum and I'd have to see where I can store the boxes. - Buying a new Synology disc station with a little bit of processing power will quickly run me 400€ and more, but it is energy efficient and does not take up a lot of space. Last but not least, a HTPC is generally bigger, more power consuming and at least as expensive as the NAS. (+ I'd have to educate myself in all the HTPC stuff, but that should be easy enough by just reading on this forum.)
Thanks already for reading and answering, I really appreciate it! P.S: If I posted in the wrong board, I'm sorry, I didn't see a better suiting one. <3
I've been a long time reader here on AVS, and it has certainly be helpful; now I have a dilemma though, and thought asking the most experienced people in the world what I should do. We recently renovated our living room and I purchased both a Panasonic TX-L47DT50 and a Bose CineMate 1 SR. Until now, I had various blu-rays laying around, and numerous movies stored on my NAS (an old 1 slot Synology diskstation) in various qualities ranging from HDTV copies (made myself.) and copies of blurays in 720p and 1080p. (The 1080p ones taking up a lot of space at about 15GB/movie) The copies on the NAS were served via DLNA and the actual discs went in my PS3.
I decided I wanted to have uniformity and invest in either blu-ray discs of all movies I want OR a new NAS with more storage and the power to serve 1080p without hiccups OR a HTPC to do the same. Since the new television is of high quality, I wouldn't want any less than 1080p. So my question is; what would be the best way of doing things whilst keeping the cost as low as possible?
I can buy my blu-rays off Zavvi, which'll make them cheaper than buying them here in Belgium but it would still be 10€/disc at minimum and I'd have to see where I can store the boxes. - Buying a new Synology disc station with a little bit of processing power will quickly run me 400€ and more, but it is energy efficient and does not take up a lot of space. Last but not least, a HTPC is generally bigger, more power consuming and at least as expensive as the NAS. (+ I'd have to educate myself in all the HTPC stuff, but that should be easy enough by just reading on this forum.)
Thanks already for reading and answering, I really appreciate it! P.S: If I posted in the wrong board, I'm sorry, I didn't see a better suiting one. <3
