Tried out a few options and going to have to go the route of building a HTPC, but really have no clue how
I bought 2 media centers, one from WD that was ok and another from Dlink that could stream 1080p without loss... bullshit, it sounded like crap and was always having problems. This was recommended by someone at BestBuy over the WD.
Dont get me wrong, they are great if you are not concerned about losing audio and some video quality, but I spent a ton on my AV equipment and don't want to go from uncompressed HD sound to 5.1 compressed.
Anyway, the biggest thing I will need is a video card that outputs both sound and video via HDMI, and does not compress or anything other than transmit raw data into my receiver; my receiver will take care of the rest. Otherwise, I'd like a way to be able to plug in a media player (like the WD one) to my other TVs in bedrooms and pull movies from there, which I don't care about losing some quality.
My main point of building this is to be able to stream web content as well store my movie (BluRay and DVD) content. Its a pain in the ass to be running all over the house looking for where I placed movies at.
Anyone build one or bought one for a recommendation?
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Originally Posted by AaronM
I built one about 3 years ago. Still runs solid.
I don't watch much TV so no cable here. We get everything from the networks directly, Netflix, or Hulu.
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Thats one main thing I'm trying to do with it. I thought I could stream things like ABC player and Hulu from my iPad but nope... There are a lot of good shows on there I want to watch.