Rotel, no more DVD players?

Gmood,

Some people like to own a physical disc (Blu-Ray, DVD product). Next today Blu-ray still offers the highest in picture quality with 1080p and the ability to play the full Rez loss less digital surround Codecs. They also give you a lot of added content from just the movie. But yes for so called rentals a hard drive setup is a good way to watch just a movie if that is all you want to do and do not really want to have a physical disc to keep.

Foster-9, Yes, I have tried it and it doesn't sound as good as my CD player.
I also have a problem with owning a whole bunch of nothing and that's the way I see it. Call me old fashioned, but I'm not alone.
I also like the flexability of taking music with me in the car or to a friend's house.
I won't own an ipod and I am appalled to see an ipod dock on a Wadia or Manley Stingray. I'm sure this was strictly EveAnna's idea. First she starts naming stereo equipment after fish then she adds ipods and remotes. I'm sure that would not be the case if David was still running things. He's old fashioned like me.
Please don't be offended. If you like it, it's fine. It's just not my thing. I will stick to records, CDs and tapes.

I'm with Gmood1, mainly. It's all going hardrive/media storage/streaming to be certain. Writing is on the wall.
As for QUALITY media storage for hd movies and high quality dig music (sacd capable?). What's the hot ticket here? What's available right now that is of highest quality for price ranges?
I'm not sure I see what your hardrive storage unit is for your collection here Gmood1. Is it your PC? - I'm supposing

You are correct Queefee. It is using PC's. It's actually quite easy to setup with a little patience.

I have movies that are ripped at 720P and 1080P.Both look great playing back off hard drive. The quality is as good as using a single disc player, if not better in some cases.

Using programs like MakeMKV to rip DVDs and Blurays with codecs such as FFDshow available. You can have your high quality sound and picture streamed where ever you want.

As far as content info for movies, I've seen no DVD player than can match Windows 7 media player using the Media Browser plugin or XBMC media player hub software. All of which is free.

Both are feature rich allowing you to customize your Media center to your liking! You get actor info, movie synopsis, Fan-art Poster displays all at the push of a button.

To increase the home-theater feel. You can have HiDef Itunes trailers to play at the beginning of the movies before they start!
Just like if you were sitting in a local theater.

You can categorize or search your collection by alphabet, genre,actor,year,director and even by the production company that released the movie. I'm sure I left out a few. The options seem endless once you take a close look.lol

Here's a few links that can open up a serious can of worms!

Media Browser
XBMC

You can find a huge amount of info on this stuff over at the Avsforum. Just go to the Hometheater PC section.

"I also like the flexability of taking music with me in the car or to a friend's house. "

Followed by,

"I won't own an ipod and I am appalled to see an ipod dock on a Wadia or Manley Stingray."

This really doesn't make any sense.

dave