Chris Gohlke
12-20-2005, 05:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/article9086.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/article9086.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The Escient FireBall SE-D1 sits quietly near the DVP-CX777ES, managing its stored collection of DVDs and CDs through a combination of downloaded information and on screen guides. To start off with, when a DVD or CD is placed into the SE-D1, the device automatically determines the type of disc loaded and queries one of several online databases to collect and display information such as artist, song title, movie title, genre, cast information, ratings, running time and cover art. Movie and music selections can be navigated through an on screen graphical user interface which can be personalized with different background colors. On screen items can be sorted and displayed through different means including customizable movie and music genres as well as playlists."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/Clipboard01.jpg" /><br /><br />This is pretty neat. I could envision a future where you could have all your DVD's loaded into a huge silo in a closet and run something like this to access everything. In reality though, I think it will cheaper and take up less space to have a solution that copies everything to a hard disk and lets you run it off a server.