Recommend me a media player

flordiaregular · 12-11-2009, 5:58 PM

I’m after some advice regarding a hard drive media player that I can connect direct to the LCD via HDMI lead and play music, films both SD and HD, watch camcorder footage from holidays etc, view the many photo's we have and also use to back up all types of files I have on my laptop.
Ideally it should be user friendly

and possible be able to child lock sections as required

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Totally new to me thus some explanation to your recommendations would be helpful

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Regards

Andy

talas · 12-11-2009, 8:48 PM

Have to think the WD LIVE Is going to be the best bet long term for you buddy.

nik41 · 13-11-2009, 10:01 PM

apple tv then down load atv flash - the world is your oyster

flordiaregular · 15-11-2009, 7:04 PM

I’ve seen the Iomega ScreenPlay 1.5 TB and like the idea of the size of the hard drive but I think there have been reliability issues with it, can anybody recommend this one or another similar????

Regards

Andy

talas · 15-11-2009, 8:25 PM

Samsung Story Station 1.5TB great piece of kit and very cool and quiet and £85 To

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Samsung Story Station 1.5TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

rick19011 · 16-11-2009, 12:02 AM

Xtreamer hands down

flordiaregular · 16-11-2009, 11:39 AM

thankx to those trying to help me but I think that I may have confused matters my self with my initial request for help, just to clarify:-
I want to transfer movies (SD & HD), music, photos & camcorder footage from my laptop direct onto 1 box that will allow me store them and play direct from this box connected direct to my Samsung 656 and Sony 820 via HDMI and then sit back and watch / listen to the files stored on it.

Hope that clarifies things as I think some of the recommendations don't have a storage capacity.

Regards

Andy

flordiaregular · 17-11-2009, 5:38 PM

Anybody Help Me

nik41 · 17-11-2009, 9:18 PM

apple tv with atv flash and a nice big usb hd drive plugged in! just like i have works a treat supports loads of files - I uses it mostly for music and photo's my wife likes it as well

flordiaregular · 03-12-2009, 1:20 PM

Ok i think i've made my mind up now and will go with the WD live and the story 1.5tb hard drive.

anybody now were the cheapest/best service is????
unless some body tells me there's a better option