zamboknee
Auditioning
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- Jan 5, 2013
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- Andy W
I'm definitely not tech-illiterate and I've hooked up any home theater system I've ever had but I need something cleared up about media servers. I have an external hard drive hooked up to my house's router downstairs. I'd like to put movies on that hard drive and be able to stream them to TV upstairs (non-smart, Roku hooked to it though) and the TV downstairs (non-Smart but PS3 hooked to THAT one). I'm looking around and seeing things like the WD TV Live, Boxee, and Uebo to name a few and I GET the concept but I'm confused about how I'd actually get the video to the TVs. For instance, let's say I buy a Uebo M400 and hook it to the hard drive downstairs via ethernet. With this scenario: How would I get the movie to play UPSTAIRS and over the wifi? Or am I completely getting this wrong? Would the Uebo hook up directly to one of the TVs and stream it over wifi from hard drive? Ugh. I'm just trying to rip my DVDs onto a hard drive and be able to play them on any TV in the house. PS..I DON'T want to have to turn my laptop on every time to initial a server such as Plex. Any clearing up of this confusion would be very helpful. Thanks