Greetings one-an-all,
Now as you can see, I'm a newbie, so hope I've posted this in the right Forum? I have tried searching, but I'm not sure my question is answered elsewhere - apologies if it is!
Right, well I'm after some digital home advice from anyone here who knows more than me - and there's plenty of you out there, so please don't be shy...
OK, I'll start with my current "assets"...So as you can see, I'm not exactly cutting edge. Now, my dilemna (sp???)...
- our digital music collection - bigger than an iPod Touch, smaller than an iPod Classic
- my laptop - 160GB hard drive and currently the home to our iTunes Library and recent photos
- my girlfriends's laptop - no digital library of any significance
- my (fairly old) desktop machine - with a 250GB HDD and used as backup space for the important files (music and photos etc) from the laptops
- a USB external 160GB HDD - originally the backup drive to the desktop before I bought my laptop as my primary machine. Still the backup to the data on the desktop (well, until I breach 155GB worth of data)
- my iPod
- my girlfriend's Nano
- a 32" Samsung TV
- Standard stereo / hi-fi
- DVD player
- Sky Plus
- Wii
I'm considering some form of digital home setup and have looked at solutions that include one or more of the following...But I can't work out which solutions fit my requirements best. What I'd like is for...
- iPod dock
- Logitech Duet
- NAS drive
- PS3 / X-Box
- Phillips Streamium
- Sony Giga-Juke
- Media Centre PC
- Surrond Sound system
- a small, cheap computer (Asus eee or similar)
- etc
We don't really have any digital movie collection to speak of, so right now, that's not an overly important aspect for me, so I think that's everything. Please ask if it's not.
- us to have a central source of music and photos that we can both access from our 3 current PC's and potentially a small, cheap computer too
- either of us to be able to update the central store of music or photos from our own PC / laptop - so either of us can buy a CD and add it to the iTunes library for example
- my girlfriend and I to be able to update the music on our own iPods via our own laptops(currently, I do all of this for both of us on my laptop)
- the ability to easily play the digital music in the house on a system with a decent quality of sound at a good volume and without needing to switch on several different devices in doing so - i.e. good enough for enjoying music whilst just sat in the lounge without much fuss, but also good for providing music for a house party.
- us to easily be able to access the central store of our photos from any computer, or wireless digi-photo frame, or even to display photos on the TV in the lounge
- the ability to take a portion (or maybe all) of my music and / or photo collection with me on my small cheap computer (I know I will have my music on my iPod, but something in me wants to be abel to do this, don't ask me why!!!)
Now, do I want the world on a biscuit, or is what I'm after easier than it appears to me????
Thanks in advance for any recommendations / suggestions that you learned folk can provide.
Regards,
zinedunc
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