Dear Friends,
I am a movie buff and have been using many media players for the last 2-3 years. First i had a WDTV first generation and then last year i bought a xtreamer Pro. Now i am more used to watching Blu ray rips with HD Audio through my Xtreamer Pro. However this Xtreamer has started showing lots of problems when playing movies specially through USB disk. The video freezes all of a sudden and then i have to shut down the player and restart again. it happens at least 10 times during a movie. Already during this time this xtreamer pro has destroyed one of my internal HDD with 1 TB of movie files which i could not recover and had to ultimately replace. Therefore i have decided to go for a HTPC which should:
1) have good internal storage(if possible upto 2X2.0 TB)
2) can play maximum no. of video formats and audio formats including HD audio, BR iso's and DVD folders.
3) has to be connected to my Denon 1610 AVR
4) no 3D required
5) have a media type interface so that watching movies is easy and just by using remote can go from one folder to the other
6) have WiFi for youtube, internet radio etc.
7) fast boot up as in a media player,
8) can be configured through my logitech harmony one universal remote for single button start up
9) to be in a good case so that it looks nice sitting beside the AVR
Any help in building up this system will be highly appreciated. Would like to know the approx. prices of the components to arrive at a budget too.
Thanks in advance
Piyush.
I am a movie buff and have been using many media players for the last 2-3 years. First i had a WDTV first generation and then last year i bought a xtreamer Pro. Now i am more used to watching Blu ray rips with HD Audio through my Xtreamer Pro. However this Xtreamer has started showing lots of problems when playing movies specially through USB disk. The video freezes all of a sudden and then i have to shut down the player and restart again. it happens at least 10 times during a movie. Already during this time this xtreamer pro has destroyed one of my internal HDD with 1 TB of movie files which i could not recover and had to ultimately replace. Therefore i have decided to go for a HTPC which should:
1) have good internal storage(if possible upto 2X2.0 TB)
2) can play maximum no. of video formats and audio formats including HD audio, BR iso's and DVD folders.
3) has to be connected to my Denon 1610 AVR
4) no 3D required
5) have a media type interface so that watching movies is easy and just by using remote can go from one folder to the other
6) have WiFi for youtube, internet radio etc.
7) fast boot up as in a media player,
8) can be configured through my logitech harmony one universal remote for single button start up
9) to be in a good case so that it looks nice sitting beside the AVR
Any help in building up this system will be highly appreciated. Would like to know the approx. prices of the components to arrive at a budget too.
Thanks in advance
Piyush.