Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 3
Installing and configuring Media Center 2005, the tuner and display setup, and the things the manual does not tell you.
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Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 4
Living with the finished machine: what worked, what did not, and what I would do differently.
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Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 2
The build itself — case, motherboard, tuners and the quiet-running compromises a machine that lives in a living room has to make.
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Building a Windows MCE 2005 PC - Part 1
Building a Windows Media Center Edition 2005 home theatre PC: what the platform could do in 2005, and choosing the parts.
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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
A review of the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 for MichaelDVD.
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The ultimate Windows HTPC
The myHTPC workshop from my July 2004 APC batch, reproduced from the manuscript that went to the magazine — the piece that was commissioned at the highest rate, abandoned on day one under an XMLTV heading, and finished across one long weekend.
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My Experiences building a Home Theatre PC ("HTPC")
Why a PC beat three set-top DVD players in my own living room, and what it took to build one that was quiet enough to sit beside them.
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