A DVR to play all my home movies?

[pakawufs]

Here is what I want to do. I have 100's of home movies on VHS, 8mm, and MiniDV. I have the capture card to get all these videos converted to my hard drive. What I would like to do is categorize these videos and play them back on my TV "with a remote control". I have a cable box that I can record TV shows to it's hard drive and play back (DVR) but I want to be able to do this same thing except play my home movies instead. I have a Pioneer DVD recorder that has a 160g HD but I need more storage for all my videos. Is there something I can plug my external hard drives into that will play the videos on my TV with a remote? My vision is to have all my home movies logged onto a hard drive or hard drives and categorized by year, holiday, birthday just like on my DVR (with TV shows) so that I can take the remote and click on birthdays 1998 and play it on the fly. Can someone guide me in the right direction? THANKS

[Bix]

You're probably better off in the Media Center/Home Theater PC forum: https://forum.videohelp.com/media-center-pc-htpc-f47.html

Also, the MiniDV tapes should be transferred to the hard drive digitally via Firewire, not analog through a capture card.

[pakawufs]

Thanks, I will try that forum also...

[redwudz]

I will move this thread to our Media Center PC / HTPC Forum. Please don't post the same topic in two forums. Ask a Mod to move a topic in the future. I will delete the other duplicate topic.

Thanks,

Moderator redwudz