chad053

Just wanna thank you all for your contribution, it's been of great help... I now know what I need, high speed router, wired connection and a good upnp/dlna NAS. Thanks Chad

Hi Vortecjr Thank you very much for your response, but i think you misunderstood my point. I'm not that terrible at technology, I do understand it a minimum. Like I do know that I can't connect the NAS direct to the TV, and that all the laptop, TV and NAS should all be connected to a router of course. In fact, I don't want to do any wifi connection at all, although I will have the possibility of doing so, because I trust wired connection better. From all the writing I did above, I am hoping to obtain alternate ways of making the connections or answers to the following two questions below: 1) I've read online that some people gets some problem to forward or rewind a movie when viewing from NAS dlna (The Plasma TV has a wifi dongle). I think it might be because of the wireless speed or something. Would it change if I buy a super "high speed router", and use "cable" instead of wifi? 2) I have noticed that people usually use the word "streaming Video" from the NAS. This word is a bit confusing to me. Therefore, I would like to know how does the NAS actually interact with the video files. When streaming a video from the NAS to my TV, does the NAS decode the video file and send it to my tv or does it simply send the video file to my tv which in turn, have to decode the file? Thank you very much for your contribution Vortecjr, Regards, Chad

Hi All, I have just realized how far behind I am with technology, although I consider myself as computer literate person, lol, reallyt unbelibable how those things are moving so so fast. Recently, I just bought a samsung Plasma TV PS50B850, and it's an awesome TV... on its own, it decodes almost all available video formats including mkv and so on, it also have something called dlna protocol I think which actually helps the tv to interact with a NAS. At the moment, I am downloading video files via my laptop to my portable hard disk which I am then connecting to my tv by USB to watch. Obvioulsy now, I want to be able to use a big hard disk (1TB Minimum) which is both accessable from my laptop and TV at all times. At the begining, I started doing some research about weather I could have a hard disk with 2 usbs (To connect one to my Laptop and one to my tv) but apparently doesn't exits. Then I looked at hard disks which could have one ethernet and one usb ports (To connect ethernet to my laptop/router and usb to my tv) Prouved to be a bad idea and it's usually either ethernet or usb. Then I had a look at media players, prouved to be quite good, but there's no good reliable brand producing those players at the moment. If someone has a better idea of how else I could achieve these connections, please advise. Therefore, I got back to the original Idea of using a NAS. Thus, I have some doubts about using it, and it would be highly appreciated if someone could help me out. The questions might be very basic, but bare with me please. 1) I've read online that some people gets some problem to forward or rewind a movie when viewing from NAS dlna (The Plasma TV has a wifi dongle). I think it might be because of the wireless speed or something. Would it change if I buy a super "high speed router", and use "cable" instead of wifi? 2) I have noticed that people usually use the word "streaming Video" from the NAS. This word is a bit confusing to me. Therefore, I would like to know how does the NAS actually interact with the video files. When streaming a video from the NAS to my TV, does the NAS decode the video file and send it to my tv or does it simply send the video file to my tv which in turn, have to decode the file? There are soooo many NAS model out there. It would be highly appreciated if you could advise about some good NAS which would do the job well for me. It is very important for me that the devise is quiet as it will probabaly stand next to my TV for wired connections. Thank you all for your help and views. Best Regards, Chad053