Saturday, March 20, 2010

Building Home Media and Entertainment Library


How many times you misplaced your favorite movie or audio disc when you want to watch or listen it? How many minutes do you need to find your favorite DVD among hundreds other DVDs?

Imagine you could scroll your movie collection and watch you favorite HD Movies, listen to you favorite songs, viewing your photos all from your big LCD / Plasma screen at your living room or your bed room. The same media library could also be accessed from your notebook or desktop without the need of duplication. All centralized and easier to maintain.

If those are things you have have in mind for your next home media and entertainment library - here are what you need:

  1. HD TV with minimum 720p (HD Ready) resolution. 
  2. Receiver and multi channel (5.1 or more) speaker system.
  3. Wireless N router. Wireless G is too slow to stream your HD movies.
  4. HD Media player. There are plenty of option out there. Find the one suitable for you. At minimum it has to support wireless N, HDMI v1.3, Component, and as many format as possible. 
  5. Network Attached Storage with multiple bay for storing your media - movie, photos, and music files.
  6. Desktop computer or notebook with adequate power to manage those media files - post processing your photos, converting you movie format etc.
Some important aspect you need to consider when building your Home Media and Entertainment Library  are:
  1. Security - who could access the content (e.g. adult content).
  2. Capacity and scalability - especially when deciding which NAS is suitable for your library. There are option to have one, two, and even eight bays NAS. From 2TB to 16TB (Raid 0) capacity.
  3. Backup strategy - even when you have a RAID 5 NAS you still need a backup system.
  4. Throughput performance - router and NAS has different throughput capabilities. Choose the one suitable for your content. Streaming 720p or 1080p would need fastest router and NAS you could afford.
  5. Lastly, you need have basic knowledge in file management and networking.
Here is an example of Home Media and Entertainment Library - as part of Home Network.

Using 4 bays NAS in RAID 5 (allows 1 disk failure scenario) we could install up to 6 TB capacity. 1 TB equal to 215 DVD quality movies or 128 HD movies or 130 thousands 8MP photos.

Using 2 bays NAS in JBOD configuration we could install up to 4 TB. JBOD however does not provide data protection against single point of failure on the hard disk.

AC Ryan latest firmware supports YAMJ (Yet Another Movie Jukebox) that allow us to scan movie directories and generate indexed HTML with movie covers and other information as you see above.

Happy building your home media and entertainment network!
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