{"id":211,"date":"2005-11-02T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:32:30","slug":"jons-htpc-wrap-up-negatives-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc-wrap-up-negatives-positives\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon’s HTPC: Wrap-up Negatives & Positives"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Part of Jon’s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The only negative I can think of:<\/strong>
\nOnce setup, the system is very FF (Fianc\u00c3\u00a9 friendly); one simple remote controls everything and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very intuitive. However, setting it all up is a totally different story. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of different software I mentioned above, and it can be pretty frustrating getting it all to play together in a friendly manner. Personally I (and probably a lot of people reading Scott\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s webpage) really enjoy the process of making it all play nice. You end up with a really nice result with endless flexibility. However if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re looking for something that is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153plug and play\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be any further from what you are looking for. With a TIVO you just plug it in and it works (essentially), but on the flip side your TIVO can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t control your coffee maker. \u00e2\u02dc\u00ba Do whatever works for you.
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\nSome positives:<\/strong>
\nCrazy good picture quality
\nCrazy good sound quality
\nEverything accessible from one location with one remote
\nEverything cataloged and searchable with cover\/box-art
\nTons of old school games with real controllers
\nAC3 (5.1) Music Library
\nHome automation integrated into Home Theater
\nEasy to expand and upgrade<\/p>\n

Wow, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe how much I typed. If you made it this far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sorry it was so boring. Hopefully it was informative, and hopefully I just made it easier for anyone else that is interested in something similar. I know for me it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a huge learning process with lots and lots of failed attempts. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll learn a lot more too as it continues to expand. A \u00e2\u20ac\u0153USBUIRT\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, RF Distributor, and IR Repeater are on the horizon for me.<\/p>\n

USBUIRT\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nhttp:\/\/www.usbuirt.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Video Distributor\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nhttp:\/\/www.smarthome.com\/7717.HTML<\/a><\/p>\n

IR Repeater\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nhttp:\/\/www.smarthome.com\/8220F.HTML<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Part of Jon’s HTPC setup. For more, see: Introduction and Table of Contents The only negative I can think of: Once setup, the system is very FF (Fianc\u00c3\u00a9 friendly); one simple remote controls everything and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very intuitive. However, setting it all up is a totally different story. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of different… Read more »<\/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-211","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\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}