Twonky

Twonky make 2 products, these being: Twonky Media Manager and Twonky Media Server. Twonky Media Manager costs $39.95 (£25) and includes Twonky Media Server (which costs $29.95 or £19 on its own).

Obviously the Server product makes available media files on your PC to client devices elsewhere on your network. The Manager product also allows control of what is being played from the PC. Nomad is not sure how useful this "play to" functionality would be. On the other hand given the small price differential it may be just as well to invest in the full product.

The Twonky media products provide a DLNA certified interface. If you are running Windows XP then installing Twonky will provide the same functionality as Windows Media Center without you having to upgrade to Vista or wait for Windows 7 to be released.

You can download Twonky Media Manager for a 30 day free trial. This seems such a good offer that Nomad has decided to make it this weekends project. Expect a report shortly.

http://www.twonkyvision.de/