April 4, 2005

2CPU.com has just published an excellent 21 page guide to building the perfect Home Theater PC (HTPC). The article discusses hardware considerations, HTPC cases and enclosures, operating systems and software, remote controls, set-top box control by the HTPC, and more. Capture cards discussed include the WinTV PVR-250 and WinTV PVR-350, the ATI eHome Wonder, the Adaptec VideOh! Media Center, the Prolink Pixelview PlayTV@P7000, the AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 500, and the AVerMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 550. Several free and commercial HTPC software packages are also considered and thoroughly reviewed, including BeyondTV, SageTV, MCE 2005, and MythTV.

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The 2CPU.com Article Here