New media server makes HD format war irrelevant

[The News Bot]

Passive Technologies has unveiled a product it claims puts an end to the HD format war – or at least renders it irrelevant. The lifeStation hd is a media server designed – and I quote – “to combine the functionality of the Windows Media Center with the design and quality of high end...

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[Rizza]

No great surprise here, digital film storage is the way forward.

Rizza

[lone ranger]

Originally Posted by R Thomson

Passive Technologies has unveiled a product it claims puts an end to the HD format war – or at least renders it irrelevant. The lifeStation hd is a media server designed – and I quote – “to combine the functionality of the Windows Media Center with the design and quality of high end...

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loving the look of that and meets my requirements perfectly,any ideas of what the lifestation hd cost with the 1.5tb memory.

[Jonstone]

Originally Posted by R Thomson

Passive Technologies has unveiled a product it claims puts an end to the HD format war

Apart from the fact that it probably costs 4 times as much as buying standalone players and the general public already think they are too expensive so it is basically irrelevant to the hd format war

[jvm]

The hugely expensive but awesome Kaleidescape System (video and audio only) or Axonix mediamax do the same thing and have been around for a while now. When you factor in the amount of hard drive space you will need for HD recording you are generally looking at spending several thousand pounds an something like this! I priced up the axonix system for 4 rooms and it came to over 10K!
I would love to own one of these systems and despite having a very understanding wife it would end in divorce if i spent that much money!

[Mr.D]

Just another overpriced HTPC. Save some cash and build one yourself. Even the case is off the shelf.

[tony_yates]

Originally Posted by Mr.D

Just another overpriced HTPC. Save some cash and build one yourself. Even the case is off the shelf.

I was thinking the same but didn't realise the case was also off the shelf - where are those available from?

[tony_park]

Take a look at http://quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/htpccases

Tony

[tony_yates]

Originally Posted by tony_park

Take a look at http://quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/htpccases

Tony

Cheers Tony,

Tony

The case looks slightly different to the mcubed HFX cases from Quiet PC.

Look at http://quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/product...ssic-mc-system