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Browsing Posts published in September, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to slap together a Vista PC and give Microsoft’s latest Media Center a try. An HTPC is something I’ve actually thought about for awhile, and for me, something that seemed to make sense. The nicest thing about Media Center is the all-in-one aspect of things. You can use it [...]

Setting up an HTPC to run Media Center, I was looking to get an optical output so that I could hook it up directly to our receiver. Current sound cards with an optical out unfortunately run around $100 at the low end. I had a couple motherboards that actually have optical outputs, but for the [...]