Posted by RCE Defiant on 03/18/07 11:25

"Ant C" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "D L S" <todamon@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Mar 10, 12:10 pm, "RCE Defiant"
>> <peterfcukthespimsto...@hotcoldmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I'm getting more and more bored of touching my DVD's and putting them in
>>> the
>>> DVD player, or maybe it's just lazy, whatever. Anyone know of any
>>> workable
>>> solutions that would allow me to rip all my disc, DVD, CD, HD DVD and
>>> Blu-ray to some sort of device and then plumb that into my Plasma and
>>> then
>>> live the dream of not having to do much to watch/listen to all my stuff?
>>>
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>>> RCE Defiant
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>> I use a networked DVD player; Kiss DP-600, few bugs but fixes come .
>> If you ripped your collection to an external drive you could plug that
>> straight into it via the front USB2 socket removing the need to have a
>> (possibly noisy) PC connected to your AV setup while watching.
>> Or it streams files (music/Vid/pics) from a PC through the router or
>> directly either using wireless 802.11g or an ethernet LAN/Cat5 cable.
>> It handles HD Divx very well, great for those ad-free downloaded HD
>> episodes of Lost and 24. It also handle the Nero Digital standard so
>> you can rip a DVD down to 1 or 2 gig at good quality and still retain
>> the chapters unlike Divx as far as I know. I get movies by post and
>> rather than make time to watch them I rip them to Nero Digital and
>> when I need a film to watch I just navigate my PC media folders on the
>> TV using the remote and hit enter.
>>
>> There are other similar devices like the Snazzio but I have no first
>> hand experience. i would head over to MPCclub http://tinyurl.com/2pk5bp
>> and check out their HD media player section. Most are standard def
>> DVD players with upscaling but have HD avi capability playing from
>> from DVD/CD/USB flash drive/External HDD/PC
>>
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>
> Like RCE i'm looking to upgrade amy setup and like the look of this Kiss
> 1600. Do you know what hardrive is in this?.
>
> Anyone else have one of these?
>
>

I've been working on this project for a bit now and have decided to build my
own HTPC.

This is the build list and cost, I'm getting all my stuff from scan.co.uk as
I live 5 minutes away.

CPU AMD 64 3800 AM2 (comes with a fan/heatsink) 69.31
Case NSK2400 (comes with PSU) 68.14
Mobo Abit NF-M2 nView (7.1 sound on board, onboard gfx, dual head) 58.22
Memory 1GB DDR2 PC2-6400 45.46
HDD 500GB SATA II/300 82.96
MS MCE Remote 19.73
DVD Reader (got a spare one) 0

343.82

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RCE Defiant

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