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OK. I'll shoot you some pictures too. We've put a lot of the work to the test and we've done four complex installs doing things that normally people don't think about, ie: A home with 4 MCE2005s powering 3 plasmas, 1 HDTV sharing HDTV programming and jukebox DVDs.. 2 MCE2005s connected...

Very nice system ;) Went all out! If you've got the 6600GT, you have (IMHO) the best card out there for HTPC. Unbelievable output for video. And you can improve on it with PureVision.. (http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo.html ) You have to really be running a 6600GT (which in this purpose, is...

Honestly, you can find the Samsung burners so damn cheap, you're better off doing that. The reason is because that way, MCE will give you the option to archive the shows off onto DVD, and handle it for you.. much easier then transporting the stuff over your home network to another PC to burn...

Whew! I had an ISF tech over last night, just to give it some play and try something. After fiddling with NV-DVD and PureVideo settings in the new drivers, I wanted to really give the thing a workout to see how well it worked in comparison. My configuration is a Sony KP57WV700 set, so a...

The fan you have pictured will cool, but won't solve your issue of quiet. Look at something more like: http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi-bin/H...talogno=HS-004 With a panaflo 120mil or http://heatsinkfactory.com/cgi-bin/H...lman%20Coolers Both get the job done and are quiet...

Always get an Nvidia NF3/4 board. Many of the better ones have optical/coax out on the board, which will handle your DTS/DD streams; however, you can get a cheap one (like a Gigabyte at about $89) which will be fine and add a Envy24 Audio card with optical out for $12, and you're set. A big...

Ah! And here we go, the rub :) Some people will never see a super reason for PVR, etc. Using a remote blaster, yes, you can capture all of your normal digital cable signals, but not HD. And yes, HD is limited to "Over the Air". But, I think that's worth covering. When you watch your "HDTV"...

While a CPU can be designed to stand an upper limit of heat values, that doesn't necessarily make for a good environment for the rest of the parts inside of your HTPC. Because most HTPCs are designed in a desktop case format, convection within them bundles up that heat in a corner, which for...

Good case. Good use of video card (5200 has a DVI out with Nvidia's MCE drivers that will auto-correct for most sets). But the processor is going to be a trick. Yes, I know there are tons of Intel fans, and there are intel solutions out there, but you'd be better off with a 3.0C then a 3.0E...

I'll post up some better ones, including the inside of the box and screen shots on a seperate webpage later tonight.

Glad it worked out great :) The NVDVD decoder is pretty freaking incredible.. the remote should not be that bad; less then $30.. :) But for right now, a cordless mouse should get you buy. Remember to all: if you're even THINKING about doing an HDTV HTPC, you've got until June 2005 to do it...

No problem. Pardon the messy living room @ 2AM :) Anyway, I'll get some better pictures.. I went overboard with costs :frowning: AMD 3000+ CPU, which was $160 to get one of the low-heat 90 nm versions, motherboard ($89), 6600GT $160, memory $79, hdd (160G) (I'd have to look...

OK. What the XML file is is an instruction set which notes the actors as well as links to JPGs or other graphics. And you'd have to build one. I'm aware of one program that does this, but after checking, it isn't on the net yet ;( There should be others, but I'm still looking to find a good one...

No, not really.. however, what it is looking for is an XML file that is generated to have the links with pictures, etc. There is a program that I know of that does this, but I'm not sure if it's up on the web. I'm tyring to think of what we're accomplishing here, though.. most of the time people...

Use NVDVD, it's easily the best one out there. Yes, it has a cost, but it is far better then the others (FYI, PowerDVD6 can be made to work, but it's not worth it) You can get NVDVD at: http://www.nvidia.com/object/dvd_decoder.html If you are using a Nvidia Geforce6600GT/6600 series, it...

How do you mean delete them from media center? You can delete recordings by selecting them and press "delete" You can delete videos by selecting them, pressing delete as they roll, etc. If they are over a network, you don't have user rights to do that ;) And otherwise, you can...

Yep, you're link is one of the ones that I've already got in my hack list ;) (BTW, I if you haven't been to MS, go there, download the MS pack for MCE, which will give you other features) The Silverstone cases are very nice; I'm not as partial to the SST-LC03 as I am to the SST-LC01. Both...

I figure I'll post it up in several parts here, and then issue out a windows Help file that people can keep with them. Lots of nice pictures and links to general reviews. So far, we've tested: 18 video capture cards 14 HTPC cases 22 video cards 55 different PC configurations for...

No problem. I'm trying to work on a guide for people right now.. a "hacker" kind of guide to MCE2005.. We're trying to compile some of the best "tips" out there regarding all facets of MCE2005 to put it together into a little black book format ;)

No. The software just has to have MCE hooks, which Nero after version 6.6 officially does, and is supported by MS, straight through the UI.

You can include a Dolby Digital stream in MP4 (NeroDigital) why would you need a DTS stream in your home films? No home camcorder I'm aware of has DTS, and any other use of copying for storage is not legal in the US, and can't be discussed in this forum :)

Depends. See: http://www.nerodigital.com/ for all the details on MP4, to get ideas on how to transfer from one to the other go to http://www.dvdrhelp.com/

Yes. Any file format playable in WMP10 is playable in MCE, and you can capture however you want.. I have tons of "my videos" in various MPEG, WMV, DiVX, MP4 formats.. anyway, you can capture those however you want.. VOB, however, is a specifically non-supported format; it is so because MS's...

No. Not at all, there are people who've posted tweaks, but they generally don't work worth a darn. You can check the forums at http://www.xpmce.com/ Most of the extenders (like Linksys, etc.) also won't do DiVX.. one trick.. install the latest version of Nero and you can do MP4.. with a...

Have it. Love it. I'm using this configuration (which I've posted in many places) AMD 3000+ CPU 1GB RAM 160G SATA eVGA Dual Tuner PCI Capture Card ATI HDTV Wonder Capture Card Nvidia 6600GT AGP (for Pureview) External 56k Modem (Caller ID) Silverstone Lascala (I'll post some...