HOME THEATRE PC
A.K.A
HTPC
A Home Theatre PC or HTPC as it is more commonly referred to is a dedicated computer or media device that you connect to your tv in which you can use to play an assortment of video files, music files, and pictures and display them on your television for all your family and friends to enjoy no more need for all gathering around a small computer screen trying to view something or having to keep getting up and swapping out dvd discs or music cd's with a htpc you can either have a inbuilt storage drive which you can load all your favourite media onto and what at anytime and navigate through with bright great looking display instead of going through boring plain files on a computer looking for a particular one
the other option is you can streaming or play over your home network these media files without the need for copying from from one computer to the other they can be played wirelessly or over a standard network cable in real-time in quality ranging from standard internet video like youtube all the way up to stunning 1080p High Definition blu-ray movies
all this comes together with a HTPC and an incredible piece of software called XBMC below find some images of just some of the possible ways to organize your media and view at any time the xbmc software is being constantly developed and has a huge support community behind it so things are always improving
here is a youtube video demonstration of xbmc
Youtube XBMC Demonstration (Will open in a new window)
the other option is you can streaming or play over your home network these media files without the need for copying from from one computer to the other they can be played wirelessly or over a standard network cable in real-time in quality ranging from standard internet video like youtube all the way up to stunning 1080p High Definition blu-ray movies
all this comes together with a HTPC and an incredible piece of software called XBMC below find some images of just some of the possible ways to organize your media and view at any time the xbmc software is being constantly developed and has a huge support community behind it so things are always improving
here is a youtube video demonstration of xbmc
Youtube XBMC Demonstration (Will open in a new window)