[OT] Home Theatre....

[Ian Matters]

At 05:51 PM 13/08/2002, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
>G'Day,
>
>What I want to do is rather simple:
>
>- Play DVDs through my TV
>- Play audio CD's (through sound card to surround sound speakers)
>- Play MP3s
>
>What I envisaged was actually building a box with a DVD player, Sound Card,
>Graphics Card with TV Out etc. However the box would cost more than a simple
>DVD player (and most DVD players will play audio CDs). However a DVD home
>theatre system has one short coming - you cannot put MP3s on it. Sure you
>could burn an audio disk, but what would be better is if "the box" had a
>built in HDD and Ethernet interface that could have musing uploaded to it
>etc. Kind of a hybrid DVD player with HDD storage.
>
>Has anyone got any pointers to hardware that does this kind of thing? Kind
>of network attached multimedia player? ;-) I remember seeing a small article
>in the US PC Mag a couple of months ago, but nothing since.
>
>All suggestions, comments feedback appreciated.

Don't overlook the fact that many DVD players will also play ISO-9660 
format CD-Rs with MP3 files stored on them.  My machine is a Sast AEP803 
and works pretty well.  I'm sure that there are other newer machines to 
choose from too.


  Cheers, Ian
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