Omegas
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I just picked up a HDTV for the bedroom and looking to bring over the HTPC experience with it. What would be my best options? My current HTPC in the living room is an 8200 based Box with 2x500gb HD's, a LG BD/HD-DVD Drive, and a 9850BE powering it for encoding and a 9800GTX+ for Hybrid SLI once I mod my case for it to fit. This is just a ripping/playing/gaming box with no tuners nor any desire to add any because I work for the cable company and get a DVR with all channels pretty much for free. What I want to do with this second box in the bedroom is simply access and play the movies stored on my main HTPC in the living room and maybe NetFlix in the future, but that's just an after thought. Networking will be wired through my gigabite switch.
What are my best options? X-Box 360, PS3, Media Center Extender, or another HTPC?
If another HTPC is pretty high up on the options list, I do have alot of spare parts I can use, a be-2400, 780g MB, 2GBs DDR2, Case, PSU, HD4850 512mb and a very old 120gb IDE HD (LOUD!!) So almost a whole computer minus Optical.
Also, I have a remote for an X-Box 360 that came with my Pioneer 5.1 system.
Comments and suggestions are more then appreciated.
What are my best options? X-Box 360, PS3, Media Center Extender, or another HTPC?
If another HTPC is pretty high up on the options list, I do have alot of spare parts I can use, a be-2400, 780g MB, 2GBs DDR2, Case, PSU, HD4850 512mb and a very old 120gb IDE HD (LOUD!!) So almost a whole computer minus Optical.
Also, I have a remote for an X-Box 360 that came with my Pioneer 5.1 system.
Comments and suggestions are more then appreciated.