Personally I'd rather not see a PC anywhere near my home theatre/TV. Just way too loud, way too buggy, way too needy. I guess I'm also jaded by the awful video and sound quality of PCs, although my knowledge is almost certainly dated here. Video is surely good by now. Audio - I'm not so sure. I have a high-spec M-Audio card in my PC and the sound's just blah.
That said, many HT devices are already computers in some way or anther. There's the SB, of course, which is more powerful than an old PC I still have. I also have a satellite decoder (rebranded DishNet PVR) that is actually a PC running Linux. Like a PC, it has its share of glitches - thank goodness nothing catastrophic, but I have had to reboot it more than once. ;-) And hey, my receiver has an RS-232 port. It'd be awfully neat to issue commands by PC, but I can't think of anything I can't do by remote already. If Intel and Microsoft have their way though, media PCs will be all the rage. They will have to win over skeptics like myself by proving the device will be quiet, affordable, reliable, bug-free and that it will do something all the gear I have already won't. I'm not holding my breath on this though... -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22474 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
