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Recommendation for Mac-friendly home media center
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Woodridge, IL
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I'm looking for an inexpensive device that will allow me to easily access video stored on my networked iBook and file server. Something like this, but without the Windows lockin BS:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=318
This is a nice, Mac-friendly product, but seems to rely on an internal hard drive of its own rather than files on the network:
http://tvixusa.com/default.asp?id=60&mnu=51
Does anyone have any experience with other products, their ease of use, etc?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Check out the EyeHome from El Gato. I use it and find it pretty awesome. You can store the movies anywhere you like, and play them from your tv like a tivo.
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Woodridge, IL
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Originally Posted by boardsurfer
Check out the EyeHome from El Gato. I use it and find it pretty awesome. You can store the movies anywhere you like, and play them from your tv like a tivo.
I like the sound of the deep Mac integration, but I don't like the fact that it *only* works with a Mac and requires specific software. One thing I am trying to avoid is any kind of lock-in, which to me means playing content from a plain vanilla network share.
I already had my Tivo Desktop taken away due to their unwillingness to update for Tiger; I don't want to wind up in the same situation again. So as nice as this looks from a pure Mac perspective, I'll pass.
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