Sunday, May 12, 2013

Return of the media centre?

Well, I've had a busy week loading and supplying a couple of refurbished machines using Core 2 Duo CPUs, and I was reminded just how fast the old E8500 was. It really is great if you can still find decent boards for it. So browsing around trying to use one in a really good quiet PC, I found the Media Centre cases below. I discovered the new genre they call HTPC (home theatre PCs) and started to appreciate what they can actually do nowadays(yes even the computer industry is showing its age. I understand that Sky+ and BTVision and Virgin can do great things, but they dont have the power and versatility of a fully loaded media centre (sorry HTPC). Streaming music, Videos, on demand stuff, all the normal PC stuff, as well as anything those boxes can do. Last time I tried a media centre it was just not powerful enough, but now......WOW!!! think what it can do. When I saw these cases below, I just want to make one now! Just picture them below your tele, and then give me a call for a quote.

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