As with anything I do lately, money is a big issue, so when I wanted to put together a home theatre PC, I decided to do it cheaply. I had most of the parts, so all I needed was a motherboard and RAM. It's a pretty basic system stuffed into a small form factor case. As the rest of the home video equipment is still connected to the TV, I didn't put a TV tuner card or DVD drive in it. I download most of the movies and TV shows from the Internet on my office computer in the basement and copy it to the home theatre PC through the home network. For a front end interface, I'm trying MediaPortal, an open source application. I've just been using it, but so far I highly recommend it. And it's free!
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