{"id":202,"date":"2005-10-25T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:31:47","slug":"jons-htpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon&#8217;s HTPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/meedio1.gif\" alt=\"meedio screen\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" align=\"right\" \/>My friend Jon (the one that bought me <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/rare-kidney-bean-mentos-owner\/\">the rare mentos<\/a>) and I were e-mailing back and fourth about Apple&#8217;s new HTPC-like software (Front Row), so I asked him to do a little write-up on his home theatre PC setup. I got to play with it a bit last winter while out there visiting, and was very impressed. Since then he&#8217;s added quite a few features to it so I thought it would be interesting to see what hardware and software he used, what things worked and what things didn&#8217;t work. He sent me back a 36 page document (much of it was pictures)! It is definitely too long for one post, so I&#8217;m going to break it into several posts over the next few days. If you have any questions, or comments, leave them in the comments area on the blog and I&#8217;ll make sure Jon sees them, or more likely, he&#8217;ll add answers to the comments as well. Enjoy!<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nScott asked me to do a little write up about my HTPC (Home Theatre PC). So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153little\u00e2\u20ac\u009d something together. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve put a lot of time into my HTPC and I love showing it off, so heck yeah I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do a write up! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start with a list of features and then go into a bit more detail.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nTable of Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-part-1\/\">Features &amp; Machine Specs &#8211; 10\/25<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-the-case\/\">The Case &#8211; 10\/26<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-the-ui\/\">The UI &#8211; 10\/27<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-now-for-software\/\">Now For Software &#8211; 10\/28<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-the-tivo\/\">The &#8220;Tivo&#8221; &#8211; 10\/29<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-games\/\">Games &#8211; 10\/30<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-dvd-catalog-a-quick-note-on-audio\/\">DVD Catalog &amp; A Quick Note on Audio &#8211; 10\/31<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-home-automation-the-best-for-last\/\">Home Automation (the best for last) &#8211; 11\/1<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-wrap-up-negatives-positives\/\">Wrap-up Negatives &amp; Positives &#8211; 11\/2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next Chapter &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-part-1\/\">Features and Machine Specs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jon (the one that bought me the rare mentos) and I were e-mailing back and fourth about Apple&#8217;s new HTPC-like software (Front Row), so I asked him to do a little write-up on his home theatre PC setup. I got to play with it a bit last winter while out there visiting, and&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc\/\" title=\"Read Jon&#8217;s HTPC\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-pc","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}