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Permalink to this day Saturday, December 04, 2004

In case you are curious here is my home setup:

Living room:

  • Samsung 46" DLP TV (HLP4663W)
  • Halo brand XBox connected to the TV with component
  • Denon ADV-1000 5.1 receiver connected to Media Center with optical connection
  • Gateway 901X Media Center 2005
    • Connected to the TV with DVI
    • Connected to my network with a 100mbps link
    • P4 3.0
    • 512MB ram
    • 200 gig HD
    • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
    • DVD burner
    • ATI DTV Wonder ATSC tuner connected to a lame antenna
    • NVIDIA NTSC tuner connected to a Motorola digital cable set top box
    • Creative Audigy card
    • Gyration keyboard and mouse (I hate the mouse)

Bedroom:

  • 13" Gateway LCD TV
  • Media Center Extender
    • Connected via 802.11a
  • Computer speakers

Network:

  • Netgear FWAG114 802.11a/b/g wireless router

Update: Photo of my setup
6:15:48 PM  Permalink to this item []


I'm building an NTSC Media Center for my family. My requirements are that it's in a HTPC case, has wifi, and is low cost. Here's what I'm thinking:

Is a Celeron going to be enough? Any way to do this cheaper?
4:28:35 PM  Permalink to this item []


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