Media Servers: LaCie LaCinema Premier A Better Storage Solution Than Media Server

Marketed as a "digital media hard drive", this quasi-media server, the LaCie LaCinema Premier is a decent storage and transfer solution for all your multimedia files. Manufactured in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB version, the Premier hooks up to your computer via a USB 2.0 port from which you can transfer your videos, music, and pictures. The inconvenient part about this is that when you're done, you have to disconnect it, move it to your television where you connect it via composite cable and view or listen to the content on your TV. Any content will be upscaled to 1080i if necessary. Strangely, given the popularity of HDMI, there is no HDMI support at all with the Premier.

The LaCie LaCinema Premier features silent operation, a plain but easy-to-use interface, and supports most audio and video codecs. Rather than a dedicated media server, we'd recommend the Premier as a multimedia storage or backup solution.

Available in February 2008, the Premier will be priced at $230 for 500GB, $329 for 750GB, and $460 for 1TB of storage space.

Via press release

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Posted by Justin Davey at January 20, 2008 11:52 AM