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I need a video media streamer for under £200, needs to play via HDMi to my LG 42" TV, no storage or wireless required as I will use network over mains to my synology NAS. wide variety of supported formats would be good and I would like a remote and access to "catch up TV" via the net and any other apps it may have. Thumbnails of the video clips would be good.

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Rasberry Pi running Raspbmc/openELEC?

£30, does pretty much everything you want, though doesn't support DTS-HD MA/Dolby TrueHD (yet) and you'll need to add a MCE remote or similar, or use iOS/Android app or the web interface to control it.
 

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How about Crystal Acoustics Appstreamer G for around £100.

http://www.crystalaudiovideo.com/ProductDetails/Appstreamer-G.aspx
 
I've got Boxee box which streams all my movies wirelessly (it's wireless 'n' enabled) from Synology NAS. I automatically downloads metadata from IMDB for the movies with beautiful artwork. It's also AirPlay enabled which is a bonus.
 
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HI

I did read about the Boxee, looks like it would have to sit on a shelf? not standard "rack" type kit?

the Rasberry Pi running Raspbmc/openELEC - looks like it could be interesting but wanted plug and play.

Crystal Acoustics Appstreamer looks good, never seen that, I am trying to find some youtube reviews.

cheers
 
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what about: Popcorn Hour PopBox 3D? has good reviews on WHFI, has anyone here used one? again finding reviews on YT has been hard.
 
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thats helpful thanks, I think there is a popcorn V8 and then the WDTV device? anyone used any of these devices?
 
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Jailbroken ATV2 with xbmc installed. Will stream most anything, and you get add-ons to xbmc for catch-up.
 
synergy said:
thats helpful thanks, I think there is a popcorn V8 and then the WDTV device? anyone used any of these devices?

PopBox V8 looks to have a similar interface as the Boxee Box (a lot more plain though). It will be very good, & supports a wide variety of formats. It's not wifi ready though. Boxee is, & is also AirPlay enabled.

WD TV is a brilliant option. It's wifi ready & also plays virtually any format you throw at it. Hard to beat at the price. If it was not for the AirPlay feature, I would've gone for WD TV instead of Boxee box.
 
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cheers, yeah I looked at the WD TV, dont need Airplay to be honest.
 

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Hi

I have a WDTV streaming (wirelessly) from a Synology NAS and it works very well; plays everything i throw at it and has plenty of apps to keep you busy.

Only issue is that every time I turn the WDTV on I have to rescan the NAS to locate the movies. I think this maybe because I set the NAS to hibernate, but not tested that theory, and may also not be a problem if you use power line to connect to your network. I got mine for <£75 on eBay (bnib).
 
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thanks guys for all the advice here.....I may well get the WDTV.
 

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