Re: Pinnacle Show Center - opinions

[Simon McCaughey <simonmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/7/05, ian.bird@xxxxxxx
<ian.bird@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with either the Pinnacle Show Center
or
> other networked media players. The idea is to have a wife and kids
> friendly box that sits under the telly and plays all my DVD collection
> from the computer thereby eliminating scratched and broken disks
>

This is exactly the setup I have. I bought a showcenter a long time
ago, and it is not perfect, but I like it. I did a review of it at
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/article1430.html

The showcenter is underpowered, that's the problem. But the new
Showcenter 200 at http://tinyurl.com/dtwbj seems to solve
some
problems.

But it's not perfect either, check out the SC 200 forum at
http://tinyurl.com/bakrw but
remember to take all with a pinch of
salt, as its only the grumpy people who go there ;)

I keep a keen eye on these things, and I think the Showcenter is the
best all round solution, and value for money available at the moment.

I like it, and I will be buying a 200

Oh, and by the way, you can hang multiple SCs off one server

Simon