Entries from BlaXwan's tagged with 'MCE'

A NAS (Network Attached Storage) for the Media Center

Today arrived my new NAS!I bought it on EBay, bidding from a German Ebayer that was really honest, precise and quick in the transaction.I've choosen this particular one because it has 2 bays so it can hold up to 2 hard disks either Parallel ATA (PATA/IDE) or Serial ATA (SATA) and it has a 1 Gigabit Ethernet interface (instead of the common FastEthernet 10/100 Mbps). In addition there's an USB 1.1 port that can be used to attach to a printer in order to have the NAS acting also as a network printer server.My first and quick test was with...

DIY: how to setup a Media Center

Around the TV there are normally a number of external devices like a DVD player, a cassette VCR a Dolby amplifier with the speakers. But there are also a number of different media like VHS cassette, DVD discs. In the same place which, in my case, is the living room there's also a stereo player and a number of audio CDs.In addition, when I want to watch a video from the computer I have to burn a CD and play it on the DVD player, even worse, when I want to watch a video from the Internet I have to...