Hello AVSers,
I have been reading for awhile about streamers and HTPCs, but the rapid pace of development and my varied needs has me going in circles.... so I came up with a list of "requirements" I would like for my device to have, and hopefully you guys (and gals) with your experience might know of such a device that fits them... or at least point me in the right direction. Here we go:
I will also consider streaming from a windows home server, or mac mini server instead of a NAS, but picking that is a whole new decision. Briefly, I would like it to play nice with Mac snow leapored and windows Vista/7. In addition it would be nice if the Server/NAS could backup with time machine and backup windows. Oh, and I would also like to stream music to some sort of squeezebox style thing in the bed room.
I really do not have much HD video, or video at all on my hard drives, so most of my video consuptions will come from netflix and the internet. I am more concerned with netflix and easily listening to my music on my home theatre sterero. I would love to be able to start some audio streaming with just my iphone3Gs from an itunes server to the tv speakers... idk if that is even possible.
I looked into the "wd tv live hub" but found in a youtube review that it does not have netflix search. Some other ones that I have interest in are the NetGear Neo TV NTV550 and some of the Dune series products.
I think I have alot of demands and expectations, and mostly i need help with what is possible... do i need more of a streamer or an htpc... Maybe just one Mac Mini (running some software?) connected to the TV could do it all, and i can just forget the whoe server to streamer thing.
Thanks in advance.
I have been reading for awhile about streamers and HTPCs, but the rapid pace of development and my varied needs has me going in circles.... so I came up with a list of "requirements" I would like for my device to have, and hopefully you guys (and gals) with your experience might know of such a device that fits them... or at least point me in the right direction. Here we go:
- netflix with search
- 1080p
- song streaming from nas (wma, mp3)
- video streaming from nas (mkv,mpg,mp4,avi)
- wireless n 5ghz
- hulu
- youtube
- adult swim videos
- (i guess this means i need some sort of browser?)
- sirius internet radio (dont care about howard)
- pandora
- npr internet radio podcasts (not sure if podcasts are possible)
- slick interface
- low power
- fast boot into 10ft interface
- remote or iphone control (i like remotes for 10ft interface, i like iphone for text entry and list navigation)
I will also consider streaming from a windows home server, or mac mini server instead of a NAS, but picking that is a whole new decision. Briefly, I would like it to play nice with Mac snow leapored and windows Vista/7. In addition it would be nice if the Server/NAS could backup with time machine and backup windows. Oh, and I would also like to stream music to some sort of squeezebox style thing in the bed room.
I really do not have much HD video, or video at all on my hard drives, so most of my video consuptions will come from netflix and the internet. I am more concerned with netflix and easily listening to my music on my home theatre sterero. I would love to be able to start some audio streaming with just my iphone3Gs from an itunes server to the tv speakers... idk if that is even possible.
I looked into the "wd tv live hub" but found in a youtube review that it does not have netflix search. Some other ones that I have interest in are the NetGear Neo TV NTV550 and some of the Dune series products.
I think I have alot of demands and expectations, and mostly i need help with what is possible... do i need more of a streamer or an htpc... Maybe just one Mac Mini (running some software?) connected to the TV could do it all, and i can just forget the whoe server to streamer thing.
Thanks in advance.