home theater

I tossed my HP and scavenged the Geforce 8500GT (512 MB RAM with HDMI out) and a Creative Labs 7.1 channel sound card with optical ins and outs. I put these components in a cheap E-Machine which had an onboard Geforce 6100 nForce 405 128 MB adapter.. Upon restart, Windows didn't identify...

I'm trying to use MCE with my Windows 7 laptop so that shared music and pictures are on my server, and laptop gets the data from server thru 54mbs WLAN. The server's directory is mapped as a Z: drive in my laptop, and then MCE was told get pictures and music from there. But, MCE is actually...

I have a little problem with my sound settings... i had the same problem in the beginning in vista too, and i cant remember how i resolved it, im hoping someone here can help me. so i have a pretty standard sound card which has one Analog output, and a digital (X-Fi) the thing is, when i...

(sorry to cross post this but I can't figure out how to delete it) I have a legit version of XP Media Center 2005 with all my TV programs and videos stored on a separate harddrive to play on my home theater PC. Last night I did a clean install of a pre-release version of Windows 7...

Oy check that baby out. Here at Guru3D.com we’ve featured many impressive case-mods on these pages before now, but I think this has to be one of my favorites. This is the handiwork of a guy called Gup the Stargate-themed pyramid HTPC has a motorized top-section that lifts to reveal an LCD with...

Anyone on this board ever use the awesome media center OS called GeeXboX? I am extraordinarily pleased with this super lightweight linux OS. I have an OLD 600 MHz P3 in an even olde ISA based (1 PCI slot the rest is ISA) Gateway PC using a video card that is made by nvidia but is so old I can't...

I'm looking to do a little media distribution in my house and believe the Windows 7 will give me the ability to do what I want, but I'm not sure whether I want to use media center or media player or some combo of the two. Here's what I want to do. I have my media sitting on a windows home...

Installed Windows 7 ultimate on our media centre PC today and have managed to get it working nicely on the PC alone. We have 3 XBOXs which we use as extenders around the house and have worked perfectly under Vista. When I go to add extender, it shows me the box to put my number in but by...

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So, I have a Sony HT-SS360 Home Theater System that's connected to the computer's optical output. When I run a test to see what sampling rates are supported, I get full surround sound as the Windows is playing sound through all 5 speakers. Once I'm playing a movie in VLC and select S/PDIF, the...

A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece about building a home theater PC using AMD’s Maui platform and the Windows 7 beta. The idea there was twofold. First, explore the HTPC hardware environment. It had literally been years since I’d made an effort to replace dedicated A/V...

I'm running 7100 with Logitech Z-2300 speakers and I noticed recently the subwoofer is producing little or no sound. I unplugged my laptop and plugged my iphone into the speakers and verified that the subwoofer does work with a different input. I then hooked my laptop up to my home theater...

Netflix has told me that Mirosoft is in charge of Releasing the Netflix Player for Widows 7. So why are they so silent on this Matter? This is the only reason I have not switch my Home Theaer PC to Windows 7. The PC that I'm running Windows 7 has everything eles as a go to install this on my...

Hi all...first post here...great site BTW. ok...My problem is this: When I go to watch tv using Media center...all goes well...but after a bit...the sound will go crazy..meaining it will get all garbled, and then eventually stop working.I am using a creative Audigy 2z 5.1 the sound works fine...

I've spent two days trying everything to program my logitech remote under windows 7 media center. Everytime I get to the page where you see if the channel changes correctly it keeps putting a zero before the channel number I want to go to so it comes up with a bad channel. I'm all out ideas...

Hello, I recently downloaded the Windows 7 Beta build 7000. After install everything was working fine until i noticed that i had no sound. I am running a Creative sound blaster audigy card which is using the digital out on it to the digital coax of my 5.1 surround sound home theater...

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9842798-67.html?tag=more Sweet, I want something like that, say for watching movies as well, a mini iMax theater in my home. :P