Building an HTPC: Planning, Part Picking & Building @ Techgage

I did this once,  it was good fun until I discovered that nVidia HDMI never fit the screen of television monitors resulting in a manual adjustment and thus a decrease in resolution.  AMD on the other hand had perfect HDMI to TV synchronization.

Today, most of us are always on the hunt for tools that can make our lives easier. Enter the HTPC. We have the Internet, movies and photos on our phones – why not on our TVs? Come along on a voyage of technological discovery that is fraught with peril, as we cover the good and potentially bad of building one of these handy systems.

Personally after having built a HTPC and used it off and on for almost a year I have come to the conclusion that for the cost of the HTPC I could have bought a high-end OPPO Blu-ray player and got the same basic functionality I a package that just worked out of the box.

Which is precisely what I did and I haven’t looked back.

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