Charlie Owen - Jeff Atwood: Building Your Own Home Theater PC

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Jeff Atwood: Building Your Own Home Theater PC

One of my favorite bloggers, Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame has just posted Building Your Own Home Theater PC. Adding to his numbers, if you add a SilverStone case ($100), Seagate 500GB SATA drive ($110) (both from http://www.newegg.com as are Jeff's components) and you've got yourself a pretty nice HTPC for around $460 sans the operating system and tuner card(s) of your choice. Anybody remember the days when a single tuner Windows Media Center box first came out for $2,500 and was OEM only?

My, how times have changed. :-)

Categories: Windows Media Center | Home Theater | Comments [2] |

| Posted on Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:22:03 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Saturday, April 26, 2008 6:23:55 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

That is one thing media centers have in the favor: declining prices. In two years, that system is even cheaper. The UIs keep improving too. Vista MCE is very nice. Expectations keep rising now too though. Is 500 GB really enough for HD recordings? Also, digital cable tuners definitely add a hefty price to watching premium cable, which is kind of sad for a HTPC enthusiast like me.

Kevin

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