Extremetech
2 primary works
Book 26
The best of both worlds - now. This is entertainment. You love tinkering with technology. The digital lifestyle is your lifestyle. So building your own Home Theater PC just might be as entertaining as using it. In these pages, a couple of fellow tinkerers explain the components and subsystems of a Home Theater PC and help you choose and purchase parts, assemble and test the PC, install Windows[registered] Media Center Edition, and get the whole thing up and running. Then, invite your friends over and watch 'em turn green. It includes all you need to know. It offers clear, step-by-step instructions, complete with parts lists, pictures, and diagrams. What makes it an HTPC? It includes choosing the CPU and memory; graphics; video, HTPC audio; monitors and displays, and networking your HTPC remotes. How many you can lose. It also includes installing MCE 2005 Your choice-P4, Pentium M, or Athlon 64. Maximizing your multimedia experience ...and more!
Book 37
Want control? Build your own MythTV PC. You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you want?and because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how, assorted software components and plug-ins, an adventurous nature, and this book to tell you how it all goes together. Voil?he entertainment hub of your dreams. Learn to do all this and much more: * Choose HD capture cards and sound drivers.* Install and configure MythTV.* Build your program guides.* Use xine to add DVD menu support.* Pass raw digital streams to an external decoder.* Do cool things with your remote control.* Hack your own themes.* Export MythTV .nuv recordings to other formats. A companion Web site provides even more of the know-how you need. Visit www.wiley.com/go/extremetech for links, updates, news about recent developments in MythTV, and resources shared by other readers like you.