How To Build A Home Theatre PC - Page 1 of 8
We all know the term "convergence". The combination of multiple technologies to create one single device that incorporates functionality from many into one.
We see it all the time when we pick up a phone. The phone has a camera, a GPS, a digital media player, a calendar, a clock, a stopwatch, can play games, and sometimes it can even make and receive phone calls. In fact, the phone is probably the greatest example of a convergence device.
But would you believe that your living room can get a piece of convergence technology too?
How would you like it if you were told that in one swoop, you could combine your DVD player, CD player, video games system, high-definition personal video recorder, TV, stereo MP3 player, and Blu-ray player? What if all of that could exist in one machine?
One power plug for the one unit. You might just save some power and you could reduce those four-hundred remotes down to one or two.
A Home Theatre PC, or HTPC, is one such piece of technology. It combines the best of what your HiFi setup might already have in one home theatre-y looking box.
And what if I told you that instead of having to head to the local electronics store to find something that did all of this, you could actually make it yourself (or convince a friend that you really were their best friend and they could make it for you).
Well, over the course of the next few pages, I'm going to go through with you the basic concepts as well as what we used on one of the episodes of CyberShack from this year to make our HTPC. It's not very hard and it can be a learning experience for anyone who's interested in learning about computers and technology.
The end result is that you'll find yourself with a computer that sits in your home and can do everything that multiple devices were needed to do and a whole lot more.
All this sounds great, right?
So what do you do next...
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We all know the term "convergence". The combination of multiple technologies to create one single device that incorporates functionality from many into one.
We see it all the time when we pick up a phone. The phone has a camera, a GPS, a digital media player, a calendar, a clock, a stopwatch, can play games, and sometimes it can even make and receive phone calls. In fact, the phone is probably the greatest example of a convergence device.
But would you believe that your living room can get a piece of convergence technology too?
How would you like it if you were told that in one swoop, you could combine your DVD player, CD player, video games system, high-definition personal video recorder, TV, stereo MP3 player, and Blu-ray player? What if all of that could exist in one machine?
One power plug for the one unit. You might just save some power and you could reduce those four-hundred remotes down to one or two.
A Home Theatre PC, or HTPC, is one such piece of technology. It combines the best of what your HiFi setup might already have in one home theatre-y looking box.
And what if I told you that instead of having to head to the local electronics store to find something that did all of this, you could actually make it yourself (or convince a friend that you really were their best friend and they could make it for you).
Well, over the course of the next few pages, I'm going to go through with you the basic concepts as well as what we used on one of the episodes of CyberShack from this year to make our HTPC. It's not very hard and it can be a learning experience for anyone who's interested in learning about computers and technology.
The end result is that you'll find yourself with a computer that sits in your home and can do everything that multiple devices were needed to do and a whole lot more.
All this sounds great, right?
So what do you do next...
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