Star OSNews Asks: What HTPC Solution Do You Prefer?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th Sep 2009 22:31 UTC
Multimedia, AV While we at OSNews often talk about desktops, laptops, and netbooks, there is another "form factor" which is making inroads into various households: the home theatre PC, or HTPC. There are a lot of software packages out there that will aid in turning a computer into an HTPC, and since I've been testing three of them extensively over the past months, I figured we'd talk about what you use.
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RE[2]: MythTV
by ba1l on Sat 12th Sep 2009 12:02 UTC in reply to "RE: MythTV"
ba1l
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I realize that many OSS proponents don't want to support DRM but, frankly, that's a dysfunctional argument, as far as I'm concerned. Windows Media Center is one of the few solutions that supports CableCard.


You have that completely backwards.

The company that makes the CableCard hardware goes out of their way to make sure it doesn't work with anything other than Windows. In fact, even on Windows, it only works if you have all of the DRM crap turned on, and until recently, only if it was installed by an OEM.

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