Roadrunna Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Can anyone recommend a Wireless media centre which can stream video from an internal hard-drive, desktop PC or the internet to a TV - something similar to http://www.sony.co.uk/product/network-media-player/smp-n200/technical-specifications#tab. Budget is no more than ?150 and the player needs to play mkv, mp4 and avi. Although being able to access youtube, lovefilm or netflix would be a nice bonus, it's not essential if it bumps up the price too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patseguin Global Moderator Posted May 28, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted May 28, 2013 Have you looked at XBMC? It's free. www.xbmc.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rounds Posted June 5, 2013 Share Posted June 5, 2013 Boxee does everything you mentioned within your budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElDani Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Boxee does everything you mentioned within your budget. While I'm not the thread-starter, I am looking for something similar for my parents and myself. Boxee was often recommended in my circle of friends, so it seemed a good choice. The problem is, that the company was recently bought by Samsung. This has already created a change in their line of products, as I read about the shut down of their Boxee Cloud DVR (which I would've gladly used). I don't know what will happen in the future, but I'd like to have a reasonable alternative. At the moment I'm using Twonky on my desktop/office computer purely for streaming existing media to my Panasonic TV, but that's not an ideal solution, because I don't run the computer 24/7. Starting it up and powering it down only for my media consumption has always been bothersome, but at least I have enough space available on two 3TB internal hard-drives for all the media I've bought in the past. I've read, that Boxee can only work with hard-disks of up to 2TB. While this isn't an issue for my parents, I can't see myself be content with that limitation. Are there alternatives to Boxee, which allow for more hard-disk space? If the streaming box works very well, I wouldn't mind buying a (reasonably cheap) NAS, but I'd prefer a solution, where I could add two USB2/3 hard-drives to the box. Maybe I'll need something more elaborate like some kind of mini-PC, where I could install a media center software on my own. If the latter is the case, is a Celeron 847 (like seen in a Zotac ZBOX ID85) powerful enough, or do I need more power (like an i3-3120M in a ZBOX ID83)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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