"Rob" wrote

http://www.reel-multimedia.co.uk/

Looks mighty interesting and very versatile, but I suspect they aren't
much different to a suitably configured PC....???


Looks very neat indeed - 6 month waiting list for some of them! I'm coming
to the conclusion, having tried a few of these things, that a PC/Mac
directly hard wired is the best way to go with what I want - playback and
recording of a variety of video and music files. These wireless server
things just can't cope with either high data rates or out-of-spec file
types.

It's almost ironic that this digital age (is that where we're at?!) has
produced a stream of incompatible, unreliable, expensive and (in quite a
few cases) poorer quality media storage/playback/recording devices than we
had 25 years ago.


With technology evolving as fast as it is, I don't suppose all this
incompatability can be avoided. Soon there will be the BluRay vs. HD-DVD
Wars and when that's over (2 years, tops?) Holographic DVD will knock it all
into touch:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Holo...tes/1133197797

(All edging closer to the solid state 'Star Trek' storage blocks I mentioned
on this group *years* ago!! ;-)

Thankfully, it is all happening *globally* in mankind's chosen 'competetive'
culture and market forces will soon have the hardware on the shelves at
Tescos....