GOAL: Build a H.T.P.C to take care of all my media needs films/music/pictures/television etc. i whant it to be able to record television programs and everything else you expect a basic H.T.P.C to do
HARDWARE: I have the bulk of the hardware i need cpu ,motherboard ,dvd rom ,hard drive etc: what i need and would like input on is choice of tuner card and to keep in mind i live in the uk so HDTV isnt an issue at the minute.
I will be fitting an lcd screen between 5" and 7" on the front of it so what is the best to go for keeping in mind i dont whant to have to mod this to much to make it run on the pc power supply and hook to my 9600pro video card. i have the chance of picking up a screen from a psone console, you know the ones that fitted to the top i just dont know how much work would go into fitting that to the psu. i do know that you can plug in an outside video source but im unsure how i would rig them both up (psone screen and television) as they would both have to go into the svideo port on my grfx card wouldnt they?
lastly on the hardware front is the remote controle. i whant a remote that can do basic keyboard and mouse functions in any program ie: navigation entering menues and the like (pardon my noobness i have never used a remote in windows so i have no idea how they work with other software, how they interact with windows) can windows media centre remotes work in other softwrae or are they only for media centre.
SOFTWAREk i dont really whant to use windows media centre if i can help it. i really liked the look and feel of meedio this in my mind was a nice program to use with a nice gui but when i was using the pro free triel i didnt see any tv viewing function. i also didnt like the fact that when i tryed to open a divx file it had to use an outside media player to do so.
id like the media software to take care of everything and divx/xvid are my preferred format.
id also like the software of choice to execute as soon as windows logs in without any need for me to execute it myself
if you have any ideas of what you consider superior hard ware or software please let me know with why you feel this


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