Media Center for MP3 and DVD´s

Cytocycle

First of all TY. I am probably looking for a DAS, I know that is less than fun to get everything into the computer, but I would probably hook it up with the rest of the TV´s around the house. The problem that I have is to organize more than 1.200 DVD´s, if i put it into a computer the selection of movies and music is much better. I would still have all original copies. I have also looked into Media Centers, like the Origen S21T, in Europe you can buy this one with 3,5 TB and moneyworth (take a look at it, it is great). Anyway hard to decide what is best.

I have another question, using the Sony, am I able to label and categorize all the DVD´s???

Thanks in advance

Javier

I think a DVD megachanger is not really worth it. DVD menus are painful and slow...I can't imagine making a "playlist" frm movies or concerts - therefore it is very little effort to open the jewel case and load the DVD into the player (after all a movie lasts two hours...)

The reason I use CD Megachangers is that I can play any track I want whenever I want from my listening position (I use a wireless keyboard and I my selection is via an HDTV monitor hooked up to a PC that controls all the audio equipment). Each track is immediately available once the previous track ends (no delay) as the megachangers can be staggered. It only slows down to change a disc if you select a CD from the same changer to follow a track you are already playing in that same changer... basically it performs 95% the equivalent of iTunes at lossless setting without having to burn all my CD's. It is worth it to me as burning CD's is time consuming and I also worry like Cytocycle about hardware crash. (I don't really want to dedicate a noisy RAID system with full backup just for my music collection). OF course, I have been running this for five years.....i.e. I made this decision at a time when hard drives were much more epxensive.

Just my two cents....

Hi all !!!

Well, I have searched for anything that might look good enough, and everything is custom made. The best one that I saw in a friends house is from Buffalo Technologies. Good price, but with one big problem, the HD are not big enough for this, i will just have to wait. Thanks all and if anyone knows a better way to do this, ty in advance