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ungratefulninja · 05-25-2009, 08:13 AM

I use the Antec Fusion 430 case to house a HTPC. It's got the LG hd-dvd/blu-ray combo drive in it. I use Vista Premium cause I had a free copy laying around that came with a motherboard combo package.

I've been using PowerDVD but having problems playing some of the newer Blu-ray movies, so I'm doing a trial of Arcsoft TotalMedia which has worked well so far.

I've got an ATI 2400 series card just for the HDMI output. If you would ever want to game I'd upgrade it. Also running 3 gigs of ram and a Core2Duo cpu.

I use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo to navigate and surf the web. At full resolution it's kinda hard to read some words from 14 ft away, so I'll usually bump the resolution down a bit if I'm surfing.

I've debating backing up movies instead of playing the physical discs and looked into unRAID and Windows Home Server networked to my HTPC. Both seemed like decent solutions and both had fans over at hardocp's storage and HTPC forums. For the storage I was just gonna buy a giant case and throw a buncha hard drives and fans with a beefy psu and minimal ram/cpu.

05-25-2009, 08:13 AM
ungratefulninja Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 682	I use the Antec Fusion 430 case to house a HTPC. It's got the LG hd-dvd/blu-ray combo drive in it. I use Vista Premium cause I had a free copy laying around that came with a motherboard combo package. I've been using PowerDVD but having problems playing some of the newer Blu-ray movies, so I'm doing a trial of Arcsoft TotalMedia which has worked well so far. I've got an ATI 2400 series card just for the HDMI output. If you would ever want to game I'd upgrade it. Also running 3 gigs of ram and a Core2Duo cpu. I use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo to navigate and surf the web. At full resolution it's kinda hard to read some words from 14 ft away, so I'll usually bump the resolution down a bit if I'm surfing. I've debating backing up movies instead of playing the physical discs and looked into unRAID and Windows Home Server networked to my HTPC. Both seemed like decent solutions and both had fans over at hardocp's storage and HTPC forums. For the storage I was just gonna buy a giant case and throw a buncha hard drives and fans with a beefy psu and minimal ram/cpu.