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    TV vs Monitor

    As far as keyboard/mouse... I should get a wireless keyboard/mouse when playing games... Mostly I play strategy games... so I need keyboard/mouse. The only thing is that sometimes I can sit for hours and I don't know how comfortable it would be on a sofa... To place keyboard/mouse I thought...
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    TV vs Monitor

    OK... I was just a bit concerned... I'm just so used to playing on my monitor (so near ~ 2ft) ... that I have been uneasy about gaming my Plasma (1080p) and have TV about 10ft away... I don't know if I can get used to the distance... On a side note... what would be recomended to use as...
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    TV vs Monitor

    Hi, I have been thinking about building a HTPC... And I am now considering building HTPC to include gaming in my living room. Currently I game on my desktop and my 30" Monitor is about 2 ft away when sitting on my desk. In my living room, my 60" Plasma is about 10 ft away from sofa...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    Yes, makes sense to have a NAS in this scenario. Doing a bit more research... Looks like Intel may be coming out with Haswell that includes HD 4600 (or 5000) Which should be better than HD4000. Release date is possibly June. I'm in no rush to get HTPC... But, I probably won't see a need...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    The only thing I can think of... is not including a NAS you can have a smaller case. I do have a desktop and I can possibly add storage there... Also, I do have Logitech Squeeze box... but it needs to access my PC so I need to turn it on.... Having a NAS, you don't need to worry about...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    I've been thinking about this... I understand that a NAS is always on... but question is... does it make sense to have a NAS ? Why not integrate it with HTPC ?
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    Anand states the following: Llano, while being pretty decent for HTPC use, didn't excite us enough to recommend it wholeheartedly. Intel's Ivy Bridge, on the other hand, surprised us with its HTPC capabilities. Discrete HTPC GPUs are necessary only if one has plans to upgrade to 4K in the...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    FYI, Figured it out... I had proxy server on... after disabling... I started getting all updates... Album art work fine now... well expect for a TV Show (Games of Thrones). I did have some issues with some movies but after renaming them... I get all album work. I really do like XBMC :)...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    Yes, XBMC plays fine mkv files... Some of my movies... meta data is not there... I do have enabled "The MovieDB" Any way of doing this manually ?
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    Ceton Companion... looks very interesting... I will continue investigating this app... Yes, I figured a NAS server would be the ideal solution. Thanks for the heads up. Note: I was also looking at Collectorz.com (these seems an extensive software to catalog your movie collection) but...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    So, I am back with plans on building a HTPC... (Looks like I gave up searching by the time the above comment was posted.) My main reason for giving up on HTPC is because I did not find a suitable way to control my PC with my IPad. For music, I did buy a Logitech Squeeze Box and use IPad app...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    Yes, I want to connect my pre/pro using HDMI... So, if I'm using a receiver no need for sound card or DAC to get best audio quality ? Yes, I have tried Foobar2000, very good in playing music.. but I'm looking for a music software that can display album art on my TV... so I suppose a media...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    OK... So I need more help... Initially, I wanted to get a HTPC to do music, movies & TV shows.... In reality, I wanted HTPC to play high res music and all the rest were nice to haves... I didn't find a nice IPad app to control HTPC so I gave up... and started looking at music servers...
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    I suppose there are free shows that are available in Media Center... I'll assume these are in STD definition.
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    HomeTheater recommendation

    BTW, Messing around with Windows Media Center... checking different shows... picture quality is not very good... seems like standard definition. I currently don't have a tuner but is this normal ? When watching netflix/HBO GO on my PC monitor... it looks very good. How do you tell if shows...
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