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xplaytendo
November 2007
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A discount of $5 is given if you type in "SUNSHINE5" as a coupon code, during checkout.
This is the reason why I STILL can't justify buying a blu-ray player for $200. Not even Walmart's special price of under $100.
John J. Puccio
March 2002
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View profile »Some people have Home Theatre PCs instead of individual media players and A/V receivers. Basically, a dedicated computer running Windows functions as a Blu-ray player and A/V receiver. You can also surf the Internet on your 50-inch TV screen when you're bored with the movie.
I have a 10-inch netbook, so when I'm at home, I connect it to my 32-inch TV for a huge viewing area.
xplaytendo
November 2007
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View profile »I have HTPC... assembled from old PC parts that cost me ONLY $500 (blu ray player included). If you don't know your way around computers (with the proper computer parts for a HIDEF functionality), of course you would wonder how anyone WOULD EVEN CONSIDER using a computer to play hidef stuff on their hdtv.
The best part: For the amount I paid to assemble my SILENT HTPC, I can also do internet, view other Hi Def video formats (wmv, mkv, mp4), upgrade my audio capabilities (true hd, dolby, etc...), and adjust the aspect ratio of my video, since I despise the horizontal black bars on the top & bottom of the screen - all via software updates, without having to replace an expensive standalone... VERY LIMITED blu ray player. Yes, any HTPC can bypass the mouse & keyboard and get a normal universal remote, to control your viewing choice.
Oh yes, HTPC is also capable of being a TIVO-like machine to record over-the-air HD channels. Free.
John J. Puccio
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Yes, I remember about five or ten years ago reading in "PC Magazine," back when widescreen, high-def televisions were just catching on, how connecting your computer to the TV and surfing the Internet on the big screen was going to be the coming rage. Whole families would sit around the television at night at surf the Net. Never happened. Most people didn't connect their computers to their TVs, and connecting and disconnecting their notebooks was no fun, either. Computer surfing is generally a solitary venture, and it was easier to buy a bigger computer monitor than deal with television sets.
But I see your point (believe it or not
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posters5
March 2002
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View profile »pc magazine may have been too early by a few years, but convergence is the way to go. think about the times when you got up from your sofa to go upstairs to the computer room to check your e-mail. now think about how nice it would be to stay in your sofa and check your e-mail on your sony flat-panel tv.
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