Hello:
First post so please be gentle!
After just purchasing our first HDTV the good lady and I now require some sort of BluRay play and theatre speaker system. At this point I thought it would be the ideal time to sort out a HTPC system.
Am looking for some ideas on the type of hardware I should consider purchasing. I do have an old Shuttle X which I wonder if could be re-provisioned with a newer MB and graphics card ?
We have Virgin Cable for TV so the main use of the system will be for movies and music. I shall be build a NAS (Nexenta) in the not too distant future so am wondering whether to load the system with a large drive or just house the front-end and stream over 500MB homeplugs from the NAS ?
Any help, advice and pointers would be gratefully received.
TIA
First post so please be gentle!
After just purchasing our first HDTV the good lady and I now require some sort of BluRay play and theatre speaker system. At this point I thought it would be the ideal time to sort out a HTPC system.
Am looking for some ideas on the type of hardware I should consider purchasing. I do have an old Shuttle X which I wonder if could be re-provisioned with a newer MB and graphics card ?
We have Virgin Cable for TV so the main use of the system will be for movies and music. I shall be build a NAS (Nexenta) in the not too distant future so am wondering whether to load the system with a large drive or just house the front-end and stream over 500MB homeplugs from the NAS ?
Any help, advice and pointers would be gratefully received.
TIA