Streaming to TV

velocirafter

I'm thinking of getting a drobo and a droboshare to use as central storage for movies and music. Does anyone know of a clever way to stream this to the tv, some kind of inline box that connects to the network and into the scart or whatever...

Have I just found a gap in the market and exposed my unpatented idea to the world??? :eek:

matrim

I only took a quick look but it looks just like a network share to me.

There are numerous ways to play stuff stored on a hard drive \ network share to pc.

USB hard drive - you can use something like http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=408560
Networks share- I use an original XBox with XBMC installed. You can pick one up for about 15 euro and it only takes about an hour to install

Kinetic^

There are external media drives out there that can just stream to a TV via a gui built into it.

velocirafter

I know about the whole media harddrive thing. I'm able to stream from my external harddrive through my laptop to the tv and we have a media harddrive in the house.

I'm looking for somthing that will allow me stream from a network drive direct to the tv. It would allow me to download movies/songs/whatever, save them to drobo over the network and then anyone in the house can access them at any time and i could stream a movie from the network straight onto the tv

matrim

As I mentioned I use an xbox with XBMC for this but you could try something like
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=345557&view=detailed#ProductTabs
or
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=428978

I haven't used either so don't know about quality etc

velocirafter

cheers that looks along the right lines, the xbox could be a realistic option also

PogMoThoin

+1 for XBMC, exactly what You need, You'll pickup an Xbox for €20

matrim

PogMoThoin wrote: »

+1 for XBMC, exactly what You need, You'll pickup an Xbox for €20

About the only thing it's missing is HD playback, but it does play almost every format you can throw at it.

PogMoThoin

matrim wrote: »

About the only thing it's missing is HD playback, but it does play almost every format you can throw at it.

And opens files faster than windows itself

Orion

I used an Xbox for over a year for streaming - worked a treat. Then I got a taste for HD so built a HTPC instead. But if Standard def is enough then XBMC is the winner.