For a few years now, I have been streaming media from my computer to my TV, using excellent and inexpensive D-Link DSM-520 HD “Media Lounge”. I have tried other brands, but D-Link beats them all hands down. One caveat, though – don’t even try to stream HD video over the wireless link. It never worked for me. I guess there’s just not enough bandwidth with the wireless connection. I rarely watch DVDs now, preferring instead to rip them to my computer and instead of putting the DVD in the player, I just select the movie from the media server menu. So far, the best media server application has been TwonkyMedia. It is better than the free media servers I have tried, and it’s very inexpensive. They have Windows, Linux and Mac versions, as well as binaries for quite a few of NAS devices. Their new version if the server, 5.x gave me some problems with media players being frequently disconnected while playing, but after downgrading to 4.x, the problems went away. I was very happy with 4.x, and the only reason I upgraded was that I was hoping I would get subtitle support. But this is unfortunately one feature which the software is still lacking. Another media server, MediaTomb, which is free, has subtitle support, but is slightly more difficult to set up and manage. I like it, but it’s media browsing by folder isn’t as good as TwonkyMedia’s. TwonkyMedia treats each folder added to the share list separately, making it the “root” entry in the list, which is very clear and convenient. MediaTomb uses the real folder tree, so if you share a folder which is several levels deep from your root folder, you’ll have to deal with the same layout on the TV screen.