Ext hd question

I need a external hard drive to go with my mini, my question is what do I buy a networked one or plain.
My set up is 1 mac mini and soon a ps3 for my son (and me) both will be hooked up to a router/hub (wired), my goal for the external is to store home movies for viewing on the mini as well as be available for the ps3 to view on my tv so if a ps3 is on the same router as the mac will it see the external hard drive connected to the mini, or should i get a ext hd that has an ethernet connection and if so wouldnt that be slower than firewire.
Also the mini has 1 firewire connecton so if I get a ext hd with firewire how will i connect my digital cam corder?

Also the mini has 1 firewire connecton so if I get a ext hd with firewire how will i connect my digital cam corder?
Many external firewire-connected drives will allow a camcorder to be daisy-chained. However, if it doesn't, you can always simply add a firewire hub, which would allow you to share the FW port on the system with multiple FW devices in the same way that a USB hub will do for USB devices.

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