Wall-mount TV in small travel trailer ?

vlopddap wrote:
I have 5x LED/LCD/Plasma TVs at home and I have WD-TV Live devices on all my TVs and they are all networked using WiFi. I have a media server PC in my basement where my 800 DVDs are ripped (6+ TB hard drive space). I also have about 100 Blu-Ray rips. I still have the 800 original DVD inside large Rubbermaid bin inside my exterior shed...

I have a similar system at our house. All our DVDs were ripped several years ago after I realized that a lot of the disks in the trailer were getting scratched by the DVD binder I was carrying them in.

Now we have two 2TB UB drives and a WDTV box in the trailer. New movies get copied to the WDTV from our NAS system via the WiFi network. It's a relatively slow connection but I have a server wake up and copy new stuff over at night. All the movies in the camper are compressed in H.264 format so we have plenty of movies to watch, the NAS drives store everything uncompressed at home. We have a WDTV box at every TV in the house. The WDTV will download and store metadata from the internet so you have the movie poster and cast information displayed when you browse titles, even when no internet is available. I jut browsed titles when I first set everything up but came to realize that looking at the metadata pictures influenced which movies I pick more than I would have ever guessed.

The nice thing about the WDTV box is that it plays about every video format you might come across. It also runs off straight 12V DC from the camper so you don't need to use the supplied wall wart. I can't imagine using DVDs as the primary media anymore, they're just too fragile and take up way too much room in the trailer. Instead we keep them in a safe spot as archive backup and none of our digital versions have ever gone bad.

Bruce