Hardware player needed (NAS compatible)

[billytkid]

Hi all,

ive done a search and coundlt find anything so excuse the post, and i hope you can help!

In my flat ive got a 320GB NAS server (it shares via SMB, FTP and also USB2) under my couch (so if someone steals my PC then ive still got a full backup of all data!)

What i want to be able to do is have a hardware player attached to my TV (with video and ideally optical audio out) so that it can stream the movies i have downloaded to the NAS box.

Ive seen there are lots of media 'servers' out there, but none of them seem to be able to access SMB drives, so im guessing the only way to do this is via USB2

Can anyone recomend any devices - idealy under £100 would be great

thanks

[billytkid]

Bump..

Any ideas anyone?

[Abnormal1]

Well one option is to softmod an Xbox with Xbox Media centre. This will work with smb share very well.
Its what i use and I love it however its not to everyone's taste, esp as the xbox is big, ugly and a little noisy.

[Sirber]

What if someone steal your couch?

[billytkid]

Its an old brown leather thing, i think they will steal the 32" LCD, Satelite system and sony surroundsound first!!

[SeeMoreDigital]

The Zensonic Z500 can connect to NAS servers. Here's a link: -

http://www.z500series.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1236


Cheers

[billytkid]

Cool, thanks for the reply.

It looks great, however ive already got the tevion hdmi dvd player so i was hoping just for a simple media player which if it doesnt use SMB could use USB2

[SeeMoreDigital]

Cool, thanks for the reply.

It looks great, however ive already got the tevion hdmi dvd player so i was hoping just for a simple media player which if it doesnt use SMB could use USB2The Z500 has a front USB2 socket and is fully SMB compatible and capable of reading FAT32 and NTFS formatted external HDD's.

The player also is able to connect to your home PC network via ethernet and/or to directly connected NAS units.


Cheers