This is a home theater PC that assumes a very strange shape, an old NES. This casemod has a Zotac IONITX-A-U motherboard, a Dual Core 1.6GHz Intel Atom N330, a NVIDIA GeForce9400M on NVIDIA ION chipset and 2GB of DDR2 RAM. Just to compare, this is one thousand times faster than an NES. ...

One thing we don't see very often around here--and we probably should see more of--is the use of a home theater PC.  Not only does this give you the ability to play DVDs, and Blu-ray in some cases, but it also allows you to store video, or access the internet and take advantage of streaming ...

Most everybody who's tried to watch TV or a movie in the daytime hours knows that screen glare can be hugely unpleasant and get in the way, doing plenty of damage to clarity and making watching just plain old impossible. Thus, screen glare is a difficult thing to fight, and even sweet home theater setups, like ...

It's easy to forget, in this time of big and loud, where screen size is limited only by the maximum stretch of a wall, that sometimes it's the little things that mean the most in home theater. For instance, have you ever had a home theater setup that would dim the lights as the show starts, ...

I know, that's a pretty breathless chunk of hyperbole right there, isn't it?  But it might be true--check this out. See, as most of us have known for some time now, it's not exactly tough to hook up a PC to an LCD television.  If you don't use the HDMI inputs, then you've probably got a ...