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zargon @ Aug 16th 2008 7:05PM
The draw back to your solution, you need a Xbox 360 and Vista, I don't have either and don't plan to ever have Vista (linux user) but I may eventually pick up a Xbox 360. By requiring those two, you are really limiting the consumer base.
I am not up to date with the Xbox 360 or PS3 as a media extender, but their needs to be a better solution rather than proprietary software limited to a specific platform or even OS. I am going to take a wild guess that there are some third party solutions to for both the Xbox 360 and PS3, which that would help.
Personally for me, I think the best solution is a system that can run isolated by itself or on a network to share resources but not require any software. This is something that most media extenders currently cannot do. The Roku Photobridge is the first to really create a good media extender that met this critaria, sadly, there were issues with it and Roku totally dropped the ball supporting and all together gave up on it. There however is a replacement, the Popcorn Hour A-100/A-110 seems to start mostly where the Roku Photobridge left off. I am looking forward to purchase one coming up shortly and I don't doubt it will replace me dead Roku Photobridge as an excellent media extender.