My Playtime home media center player is the best thing since sliced bread. It has it's own hd and plays most formats. Just copy all those series, movies, music and pics onto the hd and you can watch on your big screen tv. No converting or burning onto disk etc and very reasonably priced. And the best thing is no getting up and down to change disks.
Great little gadget.
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