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Home Theatre PC Guide

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-projects-so-little-time dept.

Greg Ridder writes "For those of you who are interested in possibly putting together a Home Theatre or Media PC, I stumbled upon an excellent guide. It discusses basic hardware requirements, four software choices (BeyondTV, SageTV, MCE2005 and MythTV), controlling your cable or satellite set-top box and much more. Based on the research that I've done in the past, this is the most comprehensive guide that I've seen to date."

13 of 303 comments (clear)

  1. melrose place? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're late to go out for the evening and just as you're about to run out the door you remember that Melrose Place is going to be on that night and you just can't miss it.

    Did anybody else read this waiting for the punchline???

    1. Re:melrose place? by trailerparkcassanova · · Score: 4, Funny

      Give the guy a break. He is, after all, Canadian.

  2. What about... by sinfree · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... popcorn recommendations?

    1. Re:What about... by hamburger+lady · · Score: 2, Funny

      i'll bet they could cook popcorn on their server right now...

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  3. s l o w by jargoone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like 2cpu.com could use another 2 CPUs...

  4. Re:Howto build Media PC by er_head66 · · Score: 1, Funny

    3. ????
    4. Profit

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  5. most frustrating project ever by Fox_1 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thanks for reading today. I know it was quite a commitment to make it through these 21 pages, but I hope it was of some value to you.

    It's either actually doing this myself on a budget - and it was painful - I never seem to buy stable powersupplies, or supported hardware, and blood is surprisingly conductive.

    or making it through the reading of the article

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  6. Too bad they forgot commercial skip on the server by jmcwork · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went to the site and up came an 'read this ad/you will be redirected' page appeared. I have no real problem with this so I waited for the next page to load, and: the ad again. Well, the article finally appeared and I read the first page, clicked 'next page' and: same ad (Vonage, I think). That was enough for me. (This never happened with archie, gopher, and ftp!)

  7. closed captioning for the google-impaired by mapmaker · · Score: 5, Funny
    flame

    For those of you who are interested in possibly putting together a Home Theatre or Media PC but don't know how to use a search engine, I stumbled upon an excellent guide.

    /flame

  8. Re:Howto build Media PC by ad0gg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Listen PAL, these jokes are getting old.

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  9. free as in speech, cheap as in beer by fred+fleenblat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not to be a downer, but replay and tivo services are actually not that expensive. I have the grandfathered-in $9.95/mo service from replay and that is my lowest monthly expense. Honestly, I spend more on cola.

    What I want is a $300 PC that will replace my mortgage, property taxes, and/or car insurance.

  10. Re:Next up on Punch-line...Idle Worship. by slackerboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Idle Worship"?

    Well, I guess I do tend to just sit in front of the TV not doing anything worthwhile...

    Oh, wait! You meant "Idol Worship"! Nevermind.

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  11. Re:Am I the only one? by Moofie · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool. Send me one of those computers, and I'll try to get you a date.

    I kid, I kid!

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