@karym6 - milotweenie's lol
@milotweenie - it's normal for an HTPC to have tv tuner(s) built in - this is not a requirement for a media player - this case doesnt have the capability of fitting tv tuner cards - I suppose for Freeview you could get away with external USB tuners - but for sat or cable? external tuners would be required which are expensive - considerably more expensive than just buying a reasonable case in the first place. granted not everyone requires a tuner or several in their setup - after all it is going to be connected to a TV? but in this case what they are building is not an HTPC - it's a media player
HTPC's are in most cases more expensive to build than a normal home PC (gaming systems excluded lol) - in order to handle HD properly they need a certain level of hardware, in order to simulataniously watch and record from several tuners they require a reasonable hardware spec, in order to cope with what is quite often rather ropey GUI's they need reserve oomph that shouldnt really be needed all things being equal (eg a 2gb ramdisk to help mediaportal give me smooth tv lol) - it's also - for most - a primary requirement that the damn thing should be as close to silent as possible - far quieter than most people woudl expect of a PC - this costs money - but the cheapest way of doing it is to make sure you have room to fit standard slow moving fans - this isnt possible in the hyper case - which is one reason I would rule it out
my HTPC is considerably more powerful than my main system - and baring monitors cost more.
to just play back films you need what? - a 500mhz P2 with a dvd player lol
@milotweenie - it's normal for an HTPC to have tv tuner(s) built in - this is not a requirement for a media player - this case doesnt have the capability of fitting tv tuner cards - I suppose for Freeview you could get away with external USB tuners - but for sat or cable? external tuners would be required which are expensive - considerably more expensive than just buying a reasonable case in the first place. granted not everyone requires a tuner or several in their setup - after all it is going to be connected to a TV? but in this case what they are building is not an HTPC - it's a media player
HTPC's are in most cases more expensive to build than a normal home PC (gaming systems excluded lol) - in order to handle HD properly they need a certain level of hardware, in order to simulataniously watch and record from several tuners they require a reasonable hardware spec, in order to cope with what is quite often rather ropey GUI's they need reserve oomph that shouldnt really be needed all things being equal (eg a 2gb ramdisk to help mediaportal give me smooth tv lol) - it's also - for most - a primary requirement that the damn thing should be as close to silent as possible - far quieter than most people woudl expect of a PC - this costs money - but the cheapest way of doing it is to make sure you have room to fit standard slow moving fans - this isnt possible in the hyper case - which is one reason I would rule it out
my HTPC is considerably more powerful than my main system - and baring monitors cost more.
to just play back films you need what? - a 500mhz P2 with a dvd player lol
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