Welcome To Media Quest

This is my effort to document my quest to view all of my pictures, movies, music, and television recordings residing on a server from any room in my house.

Two years ago, I moved from a small loft in Downtown Denver to a three story, four bedroom home near the city. As I set up a television in my bedroom, one in the living room, and a projector in our movie room in the basement, I realized we had some problems:

• We had to purchase DVD players and/or recorders for each room.
• Our movies were on DVD, and we had to run around the house to find what we wanted to watch. The same was true with our music residing on CDs.
• Almost all of our pictures were on our computer, and we would love to show them from the living room television rather than the computer monitor in my office.

What we needed was a media server, and a device to view and play movies, music, and pictures on each of our TVs. I knew media servers existed, but I did not know how one selected and played files on a TV without a computer.