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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The HTPC Thread - Dont buy an HTPC

Heintje: Nov 10, 2004; I sing a song for you

I'm using an antec aria case:

a p4 2.6, big zalman and it can take a drive and dvd drive easily. Apparently it can take 3 hdds but I wouldn't try. It's also micro ATX so easily upgradeable.

Bought a ms media center remote off ebay, and using Mediaportal to mount directories over the network and play poo poo. Works like a charm.

Anyone else use mediaportal? seriously good opensource software:
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

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Heintje: Nov 10, 2004; I sing a song for you

Sam Fujiyama posted:

You must be way out of date. The front end has no peer, once it's working of course.

I found the new release works out of the box. And the ability to hit info and get the IMDB entry for a file is drat handy.

plus it works flawlessly with the microsoft media remote.

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