Do you get good HD ?
Are you sure your box came with the best mpeg2 decoder for your system ?
Does it fit with the rest of your stereo equipment?
Is it silent?
How much storage?

Stephan

"Joe" <bill@msn.com> wrote in message
news:Oy71$JMtFHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I've built my home systems for years - but was very glad to by my media
> center for $799 - that came with the usual useless color printer and
> stuff. Has worked great out of the box. Although it only had one capture
> card. Plugged it into my wall project - and bam - I've been watching 10
> foot by 6 foot screen movies for ages now. I see so many others here
> struggling with encoders/decoders firmware updates, etc - I enjoyed just
> plugging it in.
>
>
> "Brandon Baker" <brandonb@allegiancecu.org> wrote in message
> news:%23%239tvRccFHA.1384@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Are you guys building or buying your home theater pcs? I have a legal
>> copy of WMCE and work in the field so I have the knowledge to build it. I
>> was just wandering what everyone else is doing.
>>
>
>

My Vaio vgcra-810g is very quiet in the theater as it has no cpu fan, it is
liquid cooled with a heat exchanger, the only time I ever hear it is when
loading a cd/dvd and hear the drive initially spin up the disk.

d
"Stephan Schaem" <sschaem@sbcglobal.net.com> wrote in message
news:OA9OPWvyFHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Do you get good HD ?
> Are you sure your box came with the best mpeg2 decoder for your system ?
> Does it fit with the rest of your stereo equipment?
> Is it silent?
> How much storage?
>
> Stephan
>
> "Joe" <bill@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:Oy71$JMtFHA.3236@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> I've built my home systems for years - but was very glad to by my media
>> center for $799 - that came with the usual useless color printer and
>> stuff. Has worked great out of the box. Although it only had one capture
>> card. Plugged it into my wall project - and bam - I've been watching 10
>> foot by 6 foot screen movies for ages now. I see so many others here
>> struggling with encoders/decoders firmware updates, etc - I enjoyed just
>> plugging it in.
>>
>>
>> "Brandon Baker" <brandonb@allegiancecu.org> wrote in message
>> news:%23%239tvRccFHA.1384@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Are you guys building or buying your home theater pcs? I have a legal
>>> copy of WMCE and work in the field so I have the knowledge to build it.
>>> I was just wandering what everyone else is doing.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>