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How do I setup my PC with my home theater?

Has anyone here incorporated a Media PC into their home theater setup?

  • I was just wondering if anyone here has used a Microsoft Media PC as an integral part of a home theater or distributed audio system. I feel that eventually individual components are going to go away and these type of PC's are going to become the center piece of a good home theater, much like the iPod is now becoming a center piece for whole house distributed audio with high end control systems such as Crestron and Russound coming out with their own docking stations that allow complete control of an iPod from anywhere in the house with their keypads and touchpanels.

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    yes! i is awesome! you have to have a huge harddrive to store DVDs, tons of mp3s, and it's really cool cuz i have wireless speakers running throught my who house for mp3s, no wires, easy to install.

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I also have an Xbox running XBMC, which is still easier to setup and run than a full blown Media Center PC. howevere, i do also have a MCPC and it is (of course) more flexible and powerful, along with allowing for HD viewing. But there is still no easy solution for all this and it requires some tweaking and fussing.

galileo616

I personally have not yet gone to the steps of putting a media Center PC in my living room. I currently have a modded xbox running Xbox Media Center (XBMC) and am currently happy with the setup for playback. I will probably make the switch when I decide to begin recording HD content. Currently Tivo is doing a good enough job.

Kevin Doyle

I haven't yet gone the route of a media PC but I have begun building a large library of digital music and video on my networked PC and use a Prismiq media player to pipe it to my home theater (and, in fact, throughout the house). http://www.prismiq.com/products/mediaplayer.asp

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