I read 3 stories yesterday that have helped to shape my HD plans for this year. At the moment I have a great setup for music, pictures and normal DVDs and movies with my media center PC which has oodles of storage, and my Xboxs running XBMC which are connected to my my Plasma and LCD TVs.
However, unfortunately although my Xboxs can upscale standard DVDs to 720p or 1080i, they don’t have enough processing power to play native HD content. I was hoping that the Xbox 360 would be hacked by now as it has enough processing power, but a year has gone since its launch and no real progress has been made.
So, when i saw the following three stories a plan started to take shape:
- Netgear Launch EVA700 Wireless Media Streamer
- Seagate confirms 1TB Hard Disk Drive
- Toshiba launches its first HD DVD drive for Desktop PCs
What I think I will do is copy all my HD content onto my PC using the Toshiba HD DVD dirve, and store it on the massive Seagate 1TB drive. I have about 1.8TB of storage now, but not enough head-room to start storing HD content.
Once I’ve got that all setup I’ll stream my content to the Netgear EVA700. Netgear told me about this in about 10 months ago, and were going to give me a unit for ‘testing’, but unfortunately I no longer have a relationship with them.
I’m a bit concerned that the EVA700 it will have limited codec support though, so can anyone suggest a better way for streaming HD content from a PC?
