Getting your home theater computer together is a little bit different than setting up a regular old PC, as you need to think about saving yourself energy, socket space, and the risk of tripping over the wires. Follow these steps and not only will you be familiar with how to assemble the best HTPC, but you will also gain the knowledge to keep it as silent as possible.
While finding your favorite HTPC software often comes after trying several options, here you will find what are the popular media center softwares available. This top 10 list will simplify your task by listing the most popular media centers. Continue reading to see how the Windows Media Center, XBMC, Boxee and others compare with each other.
For this guide, we sat down with a computer expert from a computer store specialized in the HTPC equipments to choose optimal components for living room use based on the technology available in 2011. We did not try to find the best performance or the lowest cost, but a decent HTPC that is suitable for playing 1080p HD video smoothly.
This guest post is by Rob de Maat. With the growing number of computers in my household, as well the growing digitization of media there came a point where I decided to invest in hardware and software to make things go easier. The whole project did not go as smoothly as I had expected, some challenges were nice, but there were a few lessons I learned.
In this guide you will learn how to jailbreak Apple TV 2 and install XBMC Eden 11 media center on it.
So, I decided to try Apple TV 2 out to see how well it would perform as a home theater computer. In this article, you will learn why my wife is currently using an ATV2 and why I still have another HTPC in our living room.
I have been working with this for months, and I am thrilled to announce that a new 4th edition of the “5 Steps to a Successful HTPC Project” -eBook has been released! It is much bigger (60-pages) and better than before. Many people who have read this new book are saying that I am crazy to give this eBook away for free. It is a truly unique eBook as there is no other such detailed guide available to cover all the steps from choosing components to configuring your media center.
Building a centralized storage for your media files does not necessarily need to be expensive. In this guide, you will learn how to build your own home media server with FreeNAS software by utilizing old computer parts.