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New House - Questions about DVRs, Media Servers, and Home Networks
I'm moving into a new house in about a month... I'm still trying to figure out exactly how I want to make everything work together. I'm enlisting your help and opinions on which options are the best. I'll precursor this with letting you know that I am technologically able to assemble any system needed to achieve my tasks so don't worry about things getting too complicated.
Here are my wants/questions:
1) I want the ability to access recorded programs on a PVR from at least one other room than the location of the PVR. I'll put the PVR in my family room and want to access it from the bedroom (possibly upstairs home theater as well). I have looked into options like ReplayTV and PC-based PVRs and it seems like ReplayTV would be the easiest and cheapest way to access content throughout the house. But I could be wrong. I have 3 spare PCs that are all
Here are my wants/questions:
1) I want the ability to access recorded programs on a PVR from at least one other room than the location of the PVR. I'll put the PVR in my family room and want to access it from the bedroom (possibly upstairs home theater as well). I have looked into options like ReplayTV and PC-based PVRs and it seems like ReplayTV would be the easiest and cheapest way to access content throughout the house. But I could be wrong. I have 3 spare PCs that are all
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I think you will get more of a response on media server questions in the HTPC forum here. As far as PVR's my understanding is that Voom is going to have a HDPVR that is nearly everything you are asking for including access to .jpg and .mp3's on a networked computer. They are even talking about having wireless clients. Tivo is also supposed to be offering a home network option in the future but I haven't heard of an ETA.
Also for remote TV's you could get a video sender. They take a RCA connection and send it to a receiver in the 2.4 GHz spectrum. Pair that with a RF remote and it should work.
Also for remote TV's you could get a video sender. They take a RCA connection and send it to a receiver in the 2.4 GHz spectrum. Pair that with a RF remote and it should work.
ok thanks i'll try reposting in a different forum... or maybe i'll split up my questions 
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