The best enjoying in the world right now is entertainment. You love tinkering with technology. The digital lifestyle is your lifestyle. So building your own Home Theater PC just might be as entertaining as using it.

In these pages, a couple of fellow tinkerers will guide you by explaining the components and subsystems of a Home Theater PC and help you choose and pure-chase parts, assemble and test the PC, install Windows Media Center Edition, and get the whole thing up and running. Then enjoy your music or video by turning your Home Theater PC you’ve built by yourself.

This book is organized as followed here:

Part I: Meet the Modern Multimedia PC
Chapter 1: Basic PC Components and Elements
Chapter 2: Bringing Media to the PC


Part II: PC Pieces and Parts
Chapter 3: The HTPC Case and Power Supply
Chapter 4: The PC Motherboard
Chapter 5: The Central Processing Unit
Chapter 6: HTPC Memory
Chapter 7: Hard Disk Drives
Chapter 8: Optical Storage and HTPCs
Chapter 9: HTPC Graphics and Video
Chapter 10: Sound Cards and HTPC Audio
Chapter 11: HTPC Audio Setups
Chapter 12: Monitors and Displays
Chapter 13: Networking Your HTPC
Chapter 14: The HTPC Remote and Controlling Your Set-Top Box

Part III: Planning and Building Your Media Center PC
Chapter 15: Planning Your HTPC
Chapter 16: Assembling an HTPC
Chapter 17: Installing Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

Part IV: Media Center PC Projects
Chapter 18: Building a P4 HTPC
Chapter 19: Building a Pentium M HTPC
Chapter 20: Building an Athlon 64 HTPC

Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A: More about Media Center PCs and MCE
Appendix B: (HT)PC Hardware Information and Resources
Appendix C: DVD and Movie Information and Resources
Appendix D: Digital Music Information and Resources
Appendix E:Windows Radio: Finding Stations and Recording
Appendix F: PC TV and Related Hardware Info
Appendix G: Home Video Hardware and Media Info
Appendix H: PC Audio Hardware and Playback Info
Index

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