Despite the rising popularity of streaming set-top box hardware over the last few years, the HTPC community continues to thrive among home theater enthusiasts that have large collections of video ...

This is something we've always wanted to do with our HTPC, but have always been restricted by our video card, control our HDTV with our HTPC. Home automation is almost as much fun as watching HD, but ...

The Mac mini (lowercase, please) has served as the entry-level option in Apple’s Mac lineup since its introduction in 2005. The system’s modest energy footprint and impressively compact form factor ...

Build your own HTPC with a Mini PC and Linux for total content control of your media library and a commercial-free viewing experience. A Raspberry Pi is enough to get started on a budget, but for ...

It seems a lot of the times that I do run across some sort of HTPC chassis, they seem to be as tiny as possible to not be an intrusion on your home theaters design or layout. The benefit of these ...

Windows/OS X/Linux: If you've built the media center of your dreams and download your entertainment, you probably want an easy way to manage it all from another computer or when you're not home. HTPC ...

Two or three years ago you would’ve been hard-pressed to find me even entertaining the idea of owning a home theater PC (HTPC), but then I bought a house and all bets were off – I just had to have one ...

Regardless of what you buy, it's become increasingly difficult to watch high-quality content on a big screen without ...

I've removed my HTPC finally the past weekend. Just don't need it anymore, I'm streaming all my movies via DLNA to my SmartTV. My wife and kids are either hooked on their iPads or laptop in the living ...

Just a few weeks ago, we considered combo NAS / media streaming set-top boxes, but what about those like our friend Matthew, looking for a HTPC that can function by itself as a NAS server without the ...

I am a huge fan of leaving my case on my desktop for easy access to all the innards, but every once in a while I really ponder moving to a much smaller rig for my day to day use. With the advances in ...

The computer age has brought with it technological advancements almost too numerous to count. And yes, many of those advancements have been tagged with acronyms that don't exactly convey what the heck ...