Cheapest solution???

Dacelonid

Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, mods can move if it is I guess.

At the moment I have the following setup, an Iomega Screenplay director for playing content on the HDTV (mostly xvid and some H.264 tv shows and movies), a NAS for storing the content, but the two are not connected (so basically the NAs and Iomega mirror each other) and when she lets me I connect the wife's laptop to the TV to watch streaming sports.

What I would like to do is combine all this functionality into one device, so whats the cheapest way of doing this.

I guess one option is to build a m-itx build and install something like XBMC on it (although I do have a spare Win7 licence so I could use that either) but how cheap could that be.

How feasible is it to use one of those things that plug directly into the HDMI port on the TV?

Or the rasberryPi for example, or an AppleTV?

Thanks for your help
Ken

Stuxnet

raspberry pi for me, with raspbmc as your OS, I have a dinovo mini to navigate it, works out of the box, I had an appletv before with xbmc, but meh, the rasp pi is far more usefull, and cheap as chips, looks sweet under the telly in a nice pibow case :cool:

Dacelonid

Cool, looked into it some more and it seems like using SportsDevil plugin will scrape streaming websites, and looks like there are plugins for Sopcast.
I don't suppose you have used either

Where's the best place to buy the RasberryPi anyway

DualFrontDiscs

Dacelonid wrote: »

Where's the best place to buy the RasberryPi anyway

I bought from these guys: http://downloads.element14.com/raspberryPi1.html?isRedirect=true

Very efficient. Early delivery.

DFD.