@Aki Noisy fan? You can hear a pin drop with a Branded Desktop running in the same room. If you need to go the clone way, you can get noiseless fans here in 254. And anyway with a Home Theater Playing loud, what fan noise will you hear? No remote controll for a PC??? Now you are letting me down. Wireless keyboards & touchpad combo?, Bluetooth remote control apps that can run on most mobile devices from j2me to Tablets?? They even reserve keys for various media players and media centers. Ai bwana. I'm even working on an app to turn a phone into a handy laptop numpad. And for the heck of it you can even control a pc via VNC using symbian, android, IOs, winmobile and Phone 7. Boot options or Boot time? Boot options... the more the better..... Spoilt for choice!! Did you know that modern OSes & Hardware feature sleep functionality? Power on in a second..Sleep in about the same time depending on the amount of ram in use. Power consumption...if you are worried about this then get rid of every PC (and every HD & HT device ) in your house and live in the 1970s. I check out this wikipedia article<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_theater_PC> _______________________________________________ *Good judgement comes from Experience.* *Most of that comes from Bad Judgement.* _______________________________________________ * * 2011/12/5 aki <aki275@gmail.com>
@TheMburu, to add what @James has already added. If the PC is not suited to your scenario, the only option I can think of is that you buy an external DVD player with all the format features that you are looking for, this will be much cheaper. Then connect to the AUX ports on the DAV amp. Prefer if you get a Sony DVD player so that you can use the same remote control. :-)
@James, the problem with a PC is the fan noise and it can get pretty loud. There's no remote control for a PC either so its bit annoying to use. The other problem of a PC being used in the HT scenario is power consumption, boot options. I think there's a place for the PC, and its not in the HT environment. :-)
Rgds.
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