GoVideo D 2730 Networked Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Media Junkie
There are many competing media server products on the market, this one is the absolute best for the price--believe me I've reviewed all the products, none work as easily as this one. You need to mate it to a computer. I have an old pentium III running at about 500Mhz, with an 80 Gig hard drive loaded with about 30 gigs of music, pictures. Once you load up the software on your PC, which is extremely easy to do, yo then search your mp3 or wma, jpeg, mpeg files. If you have a lot it will take a while to complete the search. The only problem I've encountered is that the media server wants to play the contents of cds/albums in alphabetical order. I overcame this problem by setting up wmp playlists of my albums. Playists imported from wmp work great--edit them in wmp on your computer and import them with a problem. The DVD play in great too. I have mine hooked up to a 65 inch 16:9 HDTV and it is as good as any high priced DVD from sony, denon, toshiba, jvc. The remote is a little cluncky, but you can always get a learning programmable one for a lot less than the cost a more expensive media server. The on screen display for the media server is pretty nice. The only thing it doesn't have is a screen saver--not a problem if you switch to a different video input on your tv.