Brendon

Good question, I'm keen to see the responses, as I am considering the same. My current thoughts: Beo4vcr pro: control of (potentially) all Mac applications with Beo4; con: no control from link rooms. BM-link: pro better integration into masterlink systems, con: only limited control of other Mac applications than frontrow/Itunes

Francis

Hi Francis

Yes.  I read it, Thats what made me pose the question.  I have never heard of Beo4VRC  before reading that thread.  I hoped we get more feedback about that application.

iRed/IRtrans work very nicely. There was a long write-up in a German Mac publication that put me on to what those programs can do in emulating the functions of a Beo4. Then Beo4VRC came along, and everything is good - because it's what I've been looking for.

I'm setting up a stand-alone NAS server, with all my music and movies -- this will be connected through Ethernet to the smallest of the new iMacs, which will be the Media Center.

This iMac will share its iTunes library with other Macs (we're a Mac crazed bunch), and will also output to Airport Express units I have set up. It's quite straightforward to have several Macs address the same libraries.

I'll also use Apple TV to stream video.

To control this, I'll use the Beo4VRC (which does fast scrolling, I've been informed). I've seen a demo, and am just waiting to get into my new place to hook all of this up. I want to be able to control the setup just using the Beo4. There's not really a need to have two-way now that there are screens just about everywhere one looks in a house.


Looking forward to ironing out all the challenges of this setup!
 

Soundproof

Where did you see that demo? I'd like to see that demo.

The Infrant ReadyNAS streams movies without any trouble. It actually sets up with MOVIES - MUSIC - PICTURES as default folders.
If you connect through ethernet to your media centre, then you get glitch-free streaming. But with Apple's most recent Airport base station (the -n series) you shouldn't have any trouble streaming wirelessly.

I bought the ReadyNAS some weeks ago, works very nicely. Have it set up so that it comes up when my Mac wakes up -- all files readily available (including handy back-up). I've got 2 Terabytes storage in mine.

This movie has a stupid intro - but at 2 minutes in he gets going with the ReadyNAS. You can see he is running four screens of video simultaneously behind him from a ReadyNAS. He demonstrates XRAID backup - he actually removes a harddrive, to demonstrate that if one harddisk crashes, your material is backed up on the remaining three. The movies continue without a glitch.
You remove the damaged disk, put in another one, and off you go.