Arny Krueger wrote:
"TonyL" wrote in message


After my old cd player finally stopped working (plastic
transport mechanism parts disintegrated) I was also
interested in a Brennen-like solution but couldn't make a
decision and left it 'pending'.

Then our DVD player gave up the ghost last week and we
got a Sony Blu-Ray player replacement. Almost as an
afterthought, one of the built in features is wifi
connectivity and I realized that I now have a PC-based
solution for my original CD issue because the Blu-Ray
player can access audio files on my PCs via a home
network.

You must be talking about the new Sony BD player that has DLNA
support. This is very hot and new.


Yes, that's the one.

DLNA supports NAS, which includes PCs that do file sharing. NAS hard
drives, which now can cost barely more than non-networked external
hard drives are also supported by NAS as homes for music and video
libraries.

My main PC runs Windows 7. The included Windows Media Player functions as
the DLNA server.


BD players with DLNA support seem to a bell that tolls for many
dedicated music library devices, given reasonable user-level skills.


I simply activated Media Player as a DNLA server (default is inactive) and
used its built in library features to select which media folders would be
seen by other devices. I think I had to specify which devices the media
files could be shared to as well.

Basically, if Media Player can see it and play it then other devices can
also.

On a less positive note and rather off-topic...I am ****ed with having
certain controls on my player disabled by some BR disks so I am forced to
watch 5-10 minutes of trailers and, even worse, adverts...on a disk that I
have purchased ! I shall *not* be buying any more BR disks that contain such
nonsense. If that means going back to DVD then so be it.