Home Entertainment PC Mod

Hughesey writes "With PC's beginning to enter the Home Entertainment scene, OC-Melbourne have come up with the perfect way to integrate a PC into your Home Theater setup. The OC-Melbourne HEPC. Quote From the Article: 'So now we have a PC that is capable of replacing many separate devices (such as a DVD player, and consoles), but lets admit it, that big beige case probably looks far worse than the hardware its replacing. Some people have gotten around this by using specialised cases such as those from Shuttle, or fancy aluminium cases such as those from LianLi. These cases, however, still don't integrate seamlessly into modern home theater systems, as they still maintain their "PC" look. Enter the OC-Melbourne HEPC...'"

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HTPC Link...

[Ringthane]

Here's a great resource for those wanting to buy or to build a Home Theater PC, complete with sleek, black cases for the do-it-yourselfers and some ultra-quiet pre-fab models:

http://www.digitalconnection.com/

We're trying, HELP us!

[fons]

at

http://davedina.apestaart.org

we're trying to make a linux-box that seamlessly integrates every bit of software needed for a multimedia box.

Development has been slowing down lately. But we HAVE a working model in our living room.

So give us a bit incentive to keep working on this project: subscribe to our sourceforge mailing-list and give us your comments/ideas.

Thanks!

Jukebox Hero

[turnstyle]

I keep an old PC hidden behind the couch, wired to my stereo. It's running Andromeda, which manages and serves MP3 collection. I remote control it via my laptop over Wi-Fi. It's pretty neat, actually...

HTPC case I've ordered...

[tinla]

There are heads of HTPC cases out there, if you look hard enough. All the shuttle cases still look like PCs, just PCs with plastic "chrome" on them. I managed to hunt down a case that came in Gold and more or less matches my Marantz 6200 AV Amp (a beast of a machine). Sure it costs a heap and has to be imported from Korea but check out the pictures...

http://www.e-capsule.co.kr/shop/read.cgi?board=htp c_board&y_number=65
http://www.e-capsule.co.kr/shop/read.cgi?board=htp c_board&y_number=70&nnew=2
http://www.e-capsule.co.kr/shop/read.cgi?board=htp c_board&y_number=79&nnew=2
http://www.moddin.net/review.asp?ReviewID=45

I found it via the "Home Theater Computers" forum at:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/


Take the hint - look to Korea for cool cases.

Re:Anyone remember those Intel cases?

[I didn't]

Is it one of these concepts?

Re:PC Case

[Milalwi]

No problems for me, i never close my case anyway...

Obviously, you don't have any cats.

Milalwi

Shuttle SV24

[carambola5]

So, I bought one of these and it's sitting in pieces on top of my current 'puter. But after move-in, it will have a tremendous job ahead of it:

It will serve as one of these HEPC or whatever you call it. It has S-video out, decent sound (my standalone DVD player will take care of good sound requirements), and best of all, it has 2 fans... nothing else. No hard drive, no floppy, no cd-rom. Nothing.

That said, it is quite obvious that it will be functioning as a diskless client, booting off a server. This server will provide everything via NFS (yes, I'm behind a firewall, so don't bother trying to hack). Hopefully, in time I will produce some software that is basically an OSD similar to that of the TV guide with Time Warner's digital cable. That way, there is no need to move a pseudo-mouse with the numbers on the remote. The last step of the project will be to create a CD-archiver that mechanically loads/unloads CDs remotely. mmmm, laziness

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