Comments on: Apple Working on Home Media Server for Sharing Music, Movies and Photos http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/29/apple-working-on-home-media-server-for-sharing-music-movies-and-photos/ Bridging the Apple Community and Keeping Tabs on the Rumor Mill. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:38:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lucas http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/29/apple-working-on-home-media-server-for-sharing-music-movies-and-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-2564 lucas Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:45:41 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=1197#comment-2564 here's a groovy thought. a home server box that could be used via software built into Snow Leopard as either a backup/file server or a home media server. or even you could partition the built in hard drive and use it for both. there would be small connector boxes (one with the server and the rest perhaps $40 each) similar to an airport express that you would use to link a tv, stereo etc to the server for 'streaming' your media appropriately. here’s a groovy thought. a home server box that could be used via software built into Snow Leopard as either a backup/file server or a home media server. or even you could partition the built in hard drive and use it for both. there would be small connector boxes (one with the server and the rest perhaps $40 each) similar to an airport express that you would use to link a tv, stereo etc to the server for ’streaming’ your media appropriately.

]]> By: Matt http://www.macblogz.com/2008/12/29/apple-working-on-home-media-server-for-sharing-music-movies-and-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-2562 Matt Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:47:27 +0000 http://www.macblogz.com/?p=1197#comment-2562 I'm wondering whether this will really be a whole new product or simply a firmware update to the existing Time Capsule boxes. Based on the description in the article, this new product won't replace the Apple TV, and there's no mention of video out, so you'll need at least a media server AND an Apple TV. In the mean time, if you have an Apple TV, you can get all of your DVDs onto it by converting them to MP4s. There's a good article at <a href="http://www.macgurulounge.com/getting-your-dvds-onto-your-mac-iphone-ipod-or-apple-tv/" rel="nofollow">Mac Guru Lounge</a> on how to quickly set this up. I’m wondering whether this will really be a whole new product or simply a firmware update to the existing Time Capsule boxes. Based on the description in the article, this new product won’t replace the Apple TV, and there’s no mention of video out, so you’ll need at least a media server AND an Apple TV.

In the mean time, if you have an Apple TV, you can get all of your DVDs onto it by converting them to MP4s. There’s a good article at Mac Guru Lounge on how to quickly set this up.

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