Any advice on which media player to buy?

[pomme4moi]

Hi. Can you give some advice to a newbee? I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6. It connects wirelessly to my Apple Airport Extreme wifi router. I have a NAS connected to the Airport Extreme via ethernet cable. All of my video content is on the NAS. This includes movies that I have purchased via iTunes and which are stored in my iTunes library. They are in a m4v container format. I also have purchased some DVD's and copied them to my NAS. The DVD copies are not in iTunes. Instead, they are in a different folder structure: I created a folder for each movie, and each folder contains the ts_audio and ts_video files that comprise the movie.

I want to be able to do four things:
1. Stream movies that I have in iTunes to my TV.
2. Stream the DVD copies on my NAS to my TV.
3. I do not yet own any BlueRay discs, but I soon will and will want to do the same as in point #2 above.
4. I want to access services like Netflix and Amazon to stream HD movies to my TV.

Any advice on what media to purchase that will do the above? Thank you!

[yoda313]

Check out the wdtv media player series. The live versions have net access and can do netflix. Whether or not they talk to itunes I don't know - they probably won't play the encrypted videos but I imagine they'll do the music. Any of your personally ripped stuff should do just fine.

I have a gen 1 wdtv media player and it does a great job off harddrives. The newer live players handle direct internet connections and I believe they can be connected to media servers - don't know for sure - don't have a newer one.

Just curious - have looked into an apple tv? I don't think its as versatile as a wdtv media player by any means but I think its probably the only one that is 100% gauarenteed to work with your itunes video. I don't know if other players can do store bought itunes videos. Other than an ipod connected to a tv of course but those can't be networked to a media server that I know about.