Microsoft has been ahead of the curve in terms of giving consumers the option to store and stream their content for years. Now, you PC users out there are probably shouting at your screens saying things like, 'Media Center PC has been around since the Dark Ages!' And you're right. If anything, they find ways to make it worse. iTunes video sucks and, odd as it may sound, Apple has never bothered to fix it. It's fair to say iTunes has become something of the standard, or at very least the most popular of all media-serving software, but iTunes' Achilles' heel has always been video. iTunes and even Windows Media player will play back lossless audio files with little drama. The truth is that music has been able to be enjoyed in its full quality for years now.

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Both are incredibly expensive and both are marketed almost exclusively to the higher-end markets, leaving us 99-percenters out in the cold. For the better part of the last decade, if you wanted to enjoy your music and/or movie library in its full glory, complete with cover art, metadata and more, there were but two ready-made solutions: Meridian Sooloos for music and Kaleidescape for movies. However, when it came time to enjoy those same music and movie files in their full, native resolution(s), well, only the super rich could afford that.

It wasn't too long ago that the thought of having your music and movies all available at the touch of the button was something out of science fiction.

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