Despite the rising popularity of streaming set-top box hardware over the last few years, the HTPC community continues to thrive among home theater enthusiasts that have large collections of video ...

The Mac mini (lowercase, please) has served as the entry-level option in Apple’s Mac lineup since its introduction in 2005. The system’s modest energy footprint and impressively compact form factor ...

I have always had a fascination with computers - I think it started in second grade when we were allowed to design simple ASCII art programs on a Commodore Pet. With the advent of current technology, ...

Build your own HTPC with a Mini PC and Linux for total content control of your media library and a commercial-free viewing experience. A Raspberry Pi is enough to get started on a budget, but for ...

This is something we've always wanted to do with our HTPC, but have always been restricted by our video card, control our HDTV with our HTPC. Home automation is almost as much fun as watching HD, but ...

It seems a lot of the times that I do run across some sort of HTPC chassis, they seem to be as tiny as possible to not be an intrusion on your home theaters design or layout. The benefit of these ...

Windows/OS X/Linux: If you've built the media center of your dreams and download your entertainment, you probably want an easy way to manage it all from another computer or when you're not home. HTPC ...

I've removed my HTPC finally the past weekend. Just don't need it anymore, I'm streaming all my movies via DLNA to my SmartTV. My wife and kids are either hooked on their iPads or laptop in the living ...

At CES this year I had an opportunity to do something I hadn't done before. We all get to run around and get maybe 20 minutes or so to chat with our company reps, but most of the time in the suites or ...

Two or three years ago you would’ve been hard-pressed to find me even entertaining the idea of owning a home theater PC (HTPC), but then I bought a house and all bets were off – I just had to have one ...

The computer age has brought with it technological advancements almost too numerous to count. And yes, many of those advancements have been tagged with acronyms that don't exactly convey what the heck ...