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What is an HTPC?
If you're like most people in this age of technology, music, at one time or another, has been downloaded Internet ... Right?
I'm sure you watch DVD movies on a DVD player or computer ... Right? What about the games? Do you sometimes play on your PC or game console? Did you record video from your cable / TV into a DVR or TiVo? Many of you reading this article, at least one high-definition television definition home .. Am I wrong? Did you know that you can do all things above and more with a single device? Yes .. device and is called a HTPC or Home Theater Personal Computer.
HTPC are not necessarily new to the scene. Computers have been used in multimedia for some time, but the units specially designed for "shelters entertainment room" beginning to emerge. HTPC are usually "small factor PC, or Content a little trick that can easily blend into your entertainment center, while remaining low profile - unlike "Big Fat" computer towers normally seen. Take, for example, that customer has purchased a HTPC us last week:
This equipment was delivered in a black case, and it seemed like a player independent DVD - but it was lighter. The person who wanted to buy an "All In One" solution to get rid of their center of life, entertainment room comprising: an audio receiver, a video player, an amplifier, a Blu-Ray, DVD changer, a Dish Network box and a HDTV. Well .... Guess what happened when he bought the HTPC? You no longer need 80% of the items that were clogging valuable living area. WHY .. you ask?
Because! His HTPC brand new including:
1.) Windows Media Center - a program that provides an interface easy to navigate through different entertainment software installed on the computer without the computer, "" feel.
2.) Theater 7.1 surround sound quality car audio with digital outputs and inputs, and HDMI switch if the card can connect to high definition television audio from any loss of sound quality. The HTPC can be connected to HDTV audio from any loss of sound quality. The HTPC can be connected to your audio receiver to provide the best quality sound you can imagine. It is better to be in film. Play now!
3.) A map of cable so it can ignore its programming cable box and get cable using only your computer! (limitations apply, This is explained in the following)
4.) A player that plays Blu-Ray high definition - 1080p movies and DVDs and CDs. This is not a stand alone Blu-ray, but the small unit that is built into the computer! A regular component of the Blu-Ray (not a PC) costs $ 300.00! The HTPC also includes a DVD player and recorder and a Blu-Ray, to allow greater flexibility.
5.) Video card that enables high quality direct connection to an HDTV / TV / monitor, using either: HDTV, HDMI, DVI, S-Video, composite or component inputs. This video card also allows the game of more recent game titles AMAZING high resolution and video quality. Once you watch a movie on this machine, never again use the DVD player again!
6.) Storage space. In a terabyte (1000 gigabytes) of hard drive that can store up to hundreds of thousands of songs, thousands film and nearly endless files and programs. More important, however, this system can be used to record movies from cable and satellite without running out of space too soon!
7.) WLAN 802.11 g / n card This card lets you access the Internet from anywhere in the home and possibly smallest block! Music and video can be streamed or shared with multiple computers at home (all PCs on the network) - at the same time!
8.) A remote control navigate through the features of Windows Media Player. This remote can include something like this (remember that the client for example?) For control of the Windows icons, simply by "brandishing" the remote. Imagine replacing the mouse ... just wave through the air, while using the "Enter" "play" key "pause" key "volume key ... and more. Beware of the mouse and keyboard!
9.) A bright, smooth, aesthetically pleasing HTPC case with touchscreen! Connect to the next article on HTPC, and show you various systems, and what advantages and disadvantages each has.
Now you should have an idea of what a HTPC, and there are good possibilities that drool and want one of their own. The computer and entertainment at home does not focus on these machines, as it should, especially given the digital television transition. I have one of these "beasts" in person, I can honestly say that I refuse to watch TV in my house unless it's in my HTPC! When I see a movie, maybe look around the room, thinking that someone stands in the house ... only to realize that the sound comes from nowhere other than - speakers!
I can hear the details of the music I have heard my home and car stereos, and is im-compression. More than anything, I like the ease of sitting on my bed, and filled all my multimedia and computer applications, without lifting a finger more. All with one remote. SOLO. If Please check back in a week as we explore more Home Theater Personal Computer, and give details, specifications, photos and more.
Stay tuned .....
Jarvis Edwards - TekTime? About the Author
Jarvis Edwards is the owner and Senior Technician of TekTime, a computer consulting company located in the Inland Empire area of Southern California.
Please feel free to visit his company's website for more articles, tips, free downloads and more!
http://www.time4tech.com
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