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All of your DVDs can be burned on to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device and played back over the Network to any TV in your home. The interface on your TV, Touchscreen Controller or iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch is used to search your collection for the DVD you want to watch, and then just a single button push starts playing the movie! No more looking through stacks of DVDs to find the one you want to watch.

Companies like Kaleidescape and AMX have made systems like these for years, but can cost in excess of $20,000.00! Now, Control4 and Request, Inc. have systems that will do this plus much more for a fraction of that price! Besides your DVD Movies, you can also control and listen to Music (CDs and MP3s) watch YouTube, Hulu or Netflix videos on your TV! Click here for a short web based video of the HDTV interface.

At ADI, we like to give our Customers choices. Here are two solutions for you:

Read on for more information about the differences between these two solutions:

 

Control4:

The Control4 Media Player is a small Ethernet attached device that would sit next to your TV. It is attached to your TV via Component or HDMI, and to your Surround Receiver or TV via a Digital or analog connection. You would also need some Network Attached Storage. In order to burn your DVDs to the network and watch them back, here is what you would do:

  1. Using your computer and a software package like DVDfab, you would burn all of your DVDs to the Network Attached Storage (NAS) device
  2. Then you would use the Control4 software to scan the NAS. As part of the scan, it would go out to the Internet and pull down all of the information about the DVD including cover art.
  3. So once you copy all of your DVDs on to the system, you can now view all of your DVDs in a list by title or genre, via cover art, or search for the DVD you want. Just highlight the DVD you want to watch and press enter and the movie starts playing!

Here are some fun facts about the system:

  • It takes 20-40 minutes to copy a DVD to the system
  • You can fit about 150 DVDs on to 1 TeraByte of storage
  • Since the NAS uses RAID, if a single hard drive fails, you won't lose any movies
  • The system can have multiple Media Players. So you could have multiple areas in your home watching the same or different DVDs at the same time
  • The format of the DVD movie files is such that any Media player (Netgear, Popcorn Hour or your computer) can play them
  • The format of the DVD movie files is such that they can be converted so that you can watch them on your hand held device (iPhone, Droid, etc.)

 

Request IMC:

The Request Intelligent Media Client (IMC) is a small Ethernet attached box that would sit next to your TV. It is attached to your TV via Component or HDMI, and to your Surround Receiver or TV via a Digital or analog connection. It has a slot on the front for DVDs. When you insert a DVD in to the IMC, a menu will pop up that asks you if you want to play the DVD or archive the DVD. If you select play, the DVD will play just as it would in a normal DVD player. This option would be for playing a DVD that you don't own (rented or borrowed). If you own the DVD, you would select archive and it would copy the DVD to the Request Server or (optionally) Network Attached Storage (NAS). As part of the copy, it would go out to the Internet and pull down all of the information about the DVD including cover art. So once you copy all of your DVDs on to the system, you can now view all of your DVDs in a list by title or genre, via cover art, or search for the DVD you want. Just highlight the DVD you want to watch and press enter and the movie starts playing! Here are some fun facts about the system:

  • It takes 20-40 minutes to copy a DVD to the system
  • You can fit about 150 DVDs on to 1 TeraByte of storage
  • Since the NAS uses RAID, if a single hard drive fails, you won't lose any movies or music
  • The system can have up to 14 IMCs. So you could have multiple areas in your home watching the same or different DVDs at the same time
  • Do you own two houses? No problem! Put a system in each location and DVDs will automatically be synced between houses over the Internet!
  • The system will also archive your music CDs, you can watch Youtube, Hulu or Netflix videos, check the local weather, check stocks, and view web cameras all from the comfort of your easy chair!
  • The format of the DVD movie files is proprietary so it can't be converted or played back on anything but the Request IMC