Threatre Room - Dedicate HTPC / Media Center
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This Media Center is use as our primary media center, with 1Tb of storage for recorded TV and
has our three (3) XBox 360 connected with serves as an extender to the Main Bedroom, Lounge Room
and Family Room. We also have a smaller Media Centers in the Study which also acts as my day to
day computer.
- Gigabyte GA-EG45M-DS2H Motherboard
- Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD (Intel GMA X4500HD)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16Ghz CPU
- Zalman 9500 LED CPU Cooler
- 4Gb Legend Intel Certified DDR2 800mhz RAM
- Antec TruePower Tri 550 watt.
- Silverstone LC16M Black Case with 2x Nexus Silent Case Fan
- Hauppauge Nova T-500 MCE
- Hauppauge Nova T-500 MCE
- 1x Hitachi 60Gb SATA II HDD (OS)
- 1x Samsung 1000Gb SATA II HDD (Recorded TV)
- LG GSA-4166B DVD Drive
- Microsoft Keyboard
- Logitech 880 Harmony Remote
- Sound via onboard SPDIF (Digital) and Analog for A-Bus Sound System (Manually Change).
- Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64Bit
- ICETV Guide Subscription
- Media Player 11
- ffdshow v2546
- Panasonic Viera TH-50PV60A 50" Plasma
- Yamaha RX-V863 AV Receiver
- Onkyo DVSP300 DVD Player
- Samsung BD-P1400 Blu-Ray Player
- Pioneer PDM427 6 Disc CD Player
- Wharfdale Speakers (Fronts, Rear, Centre & Sub)
- Opus One 8" HiFi Ceiling Speaker (Rear Side)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 as Extender (should be main HTPC playing Music for Abus
- Playstation 2
- A-Bus : Oveture 4 Way Audio Hub
- A-Bus : ABM-20 Volume Control Module Module
- Acronis TrueImage Home v11
- Microsoft XBox 360 connected to a 32" LCD TV via HDMI (Bedroom 1)
- Microsoft XBox 360 connected to a 40" LCD TV via component (Family Room)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 connected to a 50" Plasma TV via HDMI (Lounge Room)
Hardware Specifications.
Software Specifications.
Home Theatre Equipment.
Other Installed Software.
Media Centre Externder.
Our other Media Center PC's
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This is my general day to day computer which also runs Vista Media Center. I use it for watching Live TV
when working in the study, scheduling recorded TV via IceTv's web schedule, overflow recording should the
4 tuners on the main HTPC not be enough. I also use this PC to update our Music Collection using Media
Player 11, which is accessable from all computers.
- Intel BLKQD35JO Mainboard with onboard DVI and 2Gb DDR2-800 RAM
- Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz CPU
- Samsung 500Gb HDD (OS and Applications)
- Digitalnow Dual Hybrid PCE-E S2
- Dual 19" Phlips LCD Monitors.
- Micrsoft Vista Ultimate
- Micrsoft Media Player 11
- Ice TV Guide Subscribtion
- Nvidia ForceWare Vista 32bit 169.25
Study Vista Media Center.
Windows Home Server
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This is Windows Home Server which is used a File Server for our personal Data Files and also as
a Media Server for Music, Photo's, Videos and archived Recorded TV from the Main Media Centre.
Currently the Home Server has approx 2TB of Storage with important files set to duplicate with plans
to increase the total storage to 5TB.
- Gigabyte GA-81945PL-G Motherboard
- Intel 775 Pentium D P4 3.2GHz
- 2Gb Legend Intel Certified DDR2 400mhz RAM
- Antec TruePower Tri 550 watt.
- Antec 4U22 ATX Rackmount Case
- Gigabyte 7600GT 256Mb DDR3 PCI-E Video Card
- 1x Samsung 1000Gb SATA II HDD
- 1x Samsung 400Gb SATA II HDD
- 1x Samsung 500Gb SATA II HDD
- LG GSA-4166B DVD Drive
- Microsoft Keyboard
- Microsoft Windows Home Server SP2 with Power Pack 1
Hardware Specifications.
Software Specifications.
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