{"id":203,"date":"2005-10-25T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:31:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:31:52","slug":"jons-htpc-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon&#8217;s HTPC: Features &#038; Machine Specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is Part of Jon&#8217;s HTPC setup. For more, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc\/\">Introduction and Table of Contents<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><br \/>\nVery high \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FF\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scores (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153FF\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is Fianc\u00c3\u00a9 Friendly)<br \/>\nSilent<br \/>\nUnobtrusive to the Living Room<br \/>\n6000+ MP3 Music Library (every single tag is correct, and every MP3 has embedded cover art)<br \/>\nAC3 Music Library<br \/>\nPhoto Collection<br \/>\nAbility to record two TV shows at once while at the same time watching another<br \/>\nDual hardware MPEG2 encoders<br \/>\nHigh quality DVD playback<br \/>\nLocal weather information<br \/>\nDVD Library catalog<br \/>\nInstant access to 700+ Super Nintendo games (using real SNES controllers)<br \/>\nInstant access to 700+ Nintendo games (using real NES controllers)<br \/>\nInstant access to 500+ Atari 2600 games<br \/>\nFull control of every single light inside and outside the house<br \/>\nControl of other household appliances<br \/>\nControl of other computers in the house<br \/>\nTwo Dual Layer DVD burners<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153THX Certified\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 7.1 output, up to 192khz\/24bit resolution<br \/>\nEverything running on battery backups so a blackout won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t affect \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dumb and Dumber\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nAll controlled with a small intuitive remote control (or Gyro Mouse)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Machine Specs: <\/strong><br \/>\n(not as impressive as Features, but remember it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you do with it)<br \/>\n2.4c P4 Processor<br \/>\n1 Gig RAM<br \/>\n510 Gigs Hard Drive space<br \/>\nAudigy 2 ZS Soundcard<br \/>\nFX5200 Video Card<br \/>\nTwo Hauppauge PVR-250 cards<br \/>\n133 IDE controller (PCI) (max of 4 drives, plus 4 on the motherboard)<br \/>\nThree USB 2.0 hubs<\/p>\n<p>Next Chapter&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-the-case\/\">The Case<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Part of Jon&#8217;s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents Features: Very high \u00e2\u20ac\u0153FF\u00e2\u20ac\u009d scores (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153FF\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is Fianc\u00c3\u00a9 Friendly) Silent Unobtrusive to the Living Room 6000+ MP3 Music Library (every single tag is correct, and every MP3 has embedded cover art) AC3 Music Library Photo Collection Ability to record two&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-part-1\/\" title=\"Read Jon&#8217;s HTPC: Features &#038; Machine Specs\">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-203","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\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}