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Sunday, 27 March 2005 23:13 |
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Streaming multimedia content to your television...a quick overview of existing solutions...
| Price | Type | Advantages | Drawbacks | | 50€-150€ | A dedicated divx player devices
Ex: Kiss-technologie, or some low-end dvd player | - Small
- Cheap
- Easy to install
- If You have no computer in house (is it possible?), a good way to
have your first contact with multimedia computer format.
| - You MUST burn all content (divx, mp3 ...) to a CDR/CDRW: slow and really a pain
- Codecs update are slow and/or depending on the company
- Impossible or difficult to add peripheral
| | 150-299€ | A computer hybrid and some external mass storage
Ex: Pinnacle Showcenter 1000g | - Small
- Easy to install
- Need a local network
| - Impossible or difficult to add peripheral
- Codecs update are slow and/or depending on the company
| | 200€ | Detourning a device
Ex: a XBOX + modchips + XBMC | - Very good support of open source format: OGG, XVID, MP3 read here
- Open source
- Internal multi-purpose mass storage (8Gb to 300Gb)
- NO Digital Right Management (DRM)
- Support major network protocols (FTP, NFS,Samba) to access media stream
| - not very easy to install, configure
- ** Network attached storage :Optionnal but recommended
| | 400€ | A computer hybrid high-end device
Ex: The Dreambox DM7000 from Dream-Multimedia-Tv | - Very good support of open source format: OGG, XVID, MP3
- Open source: Linux
- Internal multi-purpose mass storage (8Gb to 300Gb)
- Add peripheral is easy
- Internall multi-purpose mass storage
- NO Digital Right Management (DRM)
- Support major network protocols (FTP, NFS,Samba) to access media stream
- It use cheap PC peripherical: CDRW, DVDRW, Harddisk
| - not very easy to install, configure
| | 2000€ | Consumer product for the mass
Ex :M$ Media Center 2005, Frequently Asked Questions is here | - Add peripheral is easy
- Internal multi-purpose mass storage
- It is a customized windows XP behind,
- It is a regular PC, with cheap peripherical: CDRW, DVDRW, Harddisk
- Browser integrated
| - Crippled with Digital Right Management (DRM)
- Expensive
- Limited support of open source format: OGG, XVID, MP3
- Access media stream only to others media center or aproved M$ site
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DRM what is it? read more at wikipedia ** Need a local network: is needed to interconnect the device with a mass storage medium (harddisk or external DVD reader). {mosgoogle}
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:36 )
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