Which is better way to watch a movie at home, surf the Internet in the areas of interest to relax and listen to your favorite music, watch your favorite live or recorded digital TV or HDTV, a few "hours spent Whacking your enemies , the Horde in World of Warcraft. Once upon a time you needed at least half a dozen different types of items of expensive equipment at home to do so, but no more.
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What is an HTPC?
The Home Theater PC is just that a PC that iscan also serve as a home theater system. It can be used for:
Watch movies on Blu-ray DVD or HD-DVD or directly from the memory disk in your PC
Watch live via digital cable or analogue terrestrial (such as DVB-T is known, DVB-C and DVB-S or DVB-T2 HD content, DVB-S2 and DVB-C2)
Hear high quality music from a CD, DVD-Audio, SACD or high-definition audio on Blu-Ray
To manage your personal video (H.264 or MPEG4) and photosCollections
To manage its own collection of MP3 music, record your own CD collection or via the Internet directly through a channel or similar Spotify
Surf the Web or e-mail
Make your word processor or the tax office
PC games and motion simulators with wireless controller and joystick
Thanks to its incredible versatility, the PC can do everything you expect from a PC, and all the functionality of a powerful high-end home theater setup. Modern advancesMonitor, keyboard and mouse also means that they are very useful in the comfort of your living room. No need to pull it all away from your office.
Why a HTPC better than a BluRay player or a specialized device?
Recent reviews in magazines Luxury Home Theater PC has shown that the computing power of PCs and the flexibility, the ability to rapidly adopt new standards and exceed the performance of a dedicated upgradeDevice. In general, a special device used relatively long in the tooth of the trust and the old reliable technology. With transformers or five years ago as a modern graphics card, for example, has more than one teraflop computing power to bring order to devote the process of decoding of Blu-ray and the best quality image display in the image.
Demystify the techno-babble common
We seldom have so many rules and acronyms andConsequently, the misinformation on what are essentially a very simple task in context. In terms of viewers and listeners what they want is to watch a movie or listening to music, or both. We do not care, how it is stored, this cable is because it is encrypted and is protected by copyright, so that all the acronyms and technical specifications that you understand these things really are and what they make it very easy to work point to that matters and that what does not. So let's divide this up intoCategories and see what is and what we really need. Under this context, it will be easier to understand what you need to do for your home theater PC and why.
Copyright Protection: There are a number of rules, but also for the scheduling of pre-recorded HD or HDCP is the content of what you want to make sure that your home theater system is compatible. This means that the entire system of player, monitor, digital signal processor (DSP) and the receiver. Everythingdo not understand is not HDCP compliant to play the bit-stream and not in a position to audio or video. It is designed to work as hard, not to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted content. For delayed recording of live TV standard provides temporary storage for the PVR (Personal Video Recorder), which rose 90 minutes.
The physical connection / interface: All funds have now been digitally recorded and the best way to digital content in a digital display or audiodigital devices. So, wherever you want to avoid converting the signal from analog and digital, all conversion results in some deterioration of quality. Then, because almost all monitors now with HDMI or DVI, because they are two digital interfaces and easy to support the 1080 as necessary to high-definition (1080p). HDMI has the advantage that it also supports 7.1-channel audio, so pay from your HTPC to your TV drive is capable of transmittingAudio and video. Most manufacturers also offer a DVI graphics card for HDMI. The cards have also what sometimes referred to as HD output jacks or S-video. They are for the older analog devices, how they can support composite and component video, the latter the better of the two is useful. Component video, however, was for 480 lines (480i) designed so that display when you use instead of the digital interface, you get a quality cutVideo.
Media formats: There are four formats that we need to worry about CDs, DVDs, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The story with the media format is quite simple: it is about the storage capacity of 700 MB shabby all the CDs in this way to Blu-Ray 50GB. Blu-Ray has enough storage to be able to high-definition video and multichannel support. Blu-Ray can generally supports playback of all formats and write in most cases, only one player in need yourDevice.
Audio and video coding standard: the first digital standard, and most of us have been exposed to CD (CDDA - Audio Compact Disc standard), which amazingly, is still a standard lossless audio quality is measured. It is also as dissimilar lossless digital audio coding standards such as Dolby Digital or MP3, does not compress or change the contents of his, but was saved and reproduced exactly. The compression is at the originRequirements for the storage of multi-channel soundtracks wanted more space than available on older media such as CD or PC legacy. CDDA took a piece of music on analogue tape recorded in a multi-track digital studio, and by sampling at 44.1 kHz is converted and stored as 16-bit number in binary code, known as digital audio CDs.
Then things got with the multi-channel home theater audio and video, which has required much more space and much higher speeds complicated. The only waytheir video and multimedia, small and low-speed data interfaces to adjust just before the end and important data, do not lose the thought. Can be research, which is compressed and disposed of safely, while maintaining reasonable quality, has led to the MP3 and MPEG digital compression standard. 128kbit Note that the average MP3 audio in the rule / s, while the old 1980-CD Trusty veteran 1411.2 kbit / s. This request means that the venerable CD has more than ten times the density of bitsand so much better. Many young people who have never had the chance to listen to MP3 files are not on the difference.
Now, computers are much more efficient to have the media support much more capacity and interfaces to a much higher density and the type of data reduction. Audiophiles and video enthusiasts categorically that the important things are lost in compression, which can see and feel the loss of quality. Notification of arrival of HD LosslessDTS-HD Master Audio and TrueHD (HDMI1.3 bit only supports the formats for streaming high-definition lossless standard, is for the external decoder DSP). DVD-Audio or SACD is also lossless, which are substantially the CDs itself, but at a depth of sampling rate higher and higher bit 'of 192kHz/24-bit.
How do I choose the HTPC is good for me?
Home theater PCs are all the same variables, like a normal PC, you must ensure that at leastbefore
Out of memory (at least 4 GB)
64-bit operating system (Windows Vista or 7)
A modern dual-core processor,
DVB-tuner card for TV programs,
Quiet case with good cooling, the components of standard formats supported and is therefore easy to update,
an HDCP compliant video card with Blu-ray video decoding acceleration (PureVideo or AVIVO) and an HDMI output,
Sound good quality with low noise HDMI1.3 support if you need a DTS-HD Master Audio or TrueHD,
quiteStorage for your music, photos and a library of videos and live TV, at least 1 TB (1000 GB)
and finally, a good quality of the Blu-Ray, which is also HD-DVD, DVD and CD, you will need.
How do I configure my HTPC with an existing system?
The versatility of a HTPC makes it almost impossible to transform a Hi-Fi system or your home theater system will be integrated in many ways. Here are a number of options that you might be aware of:
StandaloneLow cost, multi-purpose home theater system - use it as a Blu-Ray, a receiver for digital TV and Personal Video Recorder (PVR) Feed HDMI video and audio in conjunction with the TV decoding.
Home Cinema System and Digital Signal Processor / Receiver - with an integrated multi-channel sound card in your HTPC processor power of sound on the analog or digital connection to a HI-Fi amplifier and speakers.
As a receiver and a high-definition playercurrent system of high-end - with DVB TV tuner card and the quality of the sound card can HDMI1.3 high-definition digital output on your external dedicated digital signal processor / receiver feed. The receiver feeds the analog systems to the n amplifier () and speakers.
System in order to reach your goals here between U.S. $ 1000 to the lowest level up to U.S. $ 5000 for the high-end costs. As with any home theater and HI-Fi kits come with varying degrees of aesthetics and functionalitycost increases. The best case can cost $ 1000 U.S. for their own touch to light, front cover and motorized screens, card readers and cast iron, brushed aluminum frame. The only limit is your budget ...
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