http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16983907 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:01:59 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:01:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16985471 anon : I handled this problem 3 years ago by building a "media center pc" for the purpose of connecting directly to my TV and digital reciever. granted, my system has around $1500 invested in it thru 3 years of minor upgrades.
it now contains:
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
Abit AN7 nForce 2 Ultra 400 mboard w/ nVidia Soundstorm
ATI All in Wonder 9700 Pro
1 gb ddr ram
Antec Overture case (when i bought this, there were very few HTPC cases available)
NEC DVDRW 4x Dualformat
2x 160gb IDE harddrives
2x 250gb SATA harddrives
Logitech MX Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard
Logitech Wireless Rumblepad2
Samsung 32" EDTV CRT
Onkyo Surround system.

This package is networked with cat6 to my other computer. and both systems are set up to share about 1.5 terabytes worth of Audio, Video and Game Content. I have over250 movies personally archived into Xvid on the hard drives of my two systems.

This setup handles everything i need it to do. And I first built my "media center" over 6 monthes before Microsoft brought Media Center Edition to market]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16985471 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:50:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16983907 digitalfreak : The fact that it's tied to Viiv makes it pretty much useless. I already own a MCE PC and am not going to buy another one just to take advantage of this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16983907 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:44:14 EDT