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Forums › Home Theatre (including HTPC and EPG Collector) › New HTPC build advice
dakie

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#90822 30-Sep-2011 10:13
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Hi Guys,

I am wanting to build an htpc and hoped you guys would have some advice. We currently have a Panasonic 3D Blu ray player, a small media player device (the blu ray player wont play hd mkv rips) and my wife wants to replace our tivo (destroyed in a house fire)

What I need it all in once device to connect to my 3d tv (via denon 3d capable amp)

I need to be able to play 3d blurays plus rips
Need to be able to record dual freeview like the tivo did

So I need recommendations from the case up (I have 2 1.5Tb HDD's so will install them) 

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Nety
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  #527619 30-Sep-2011 11:50
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How technical are you? and how much are you willing to learn/tinker? This will significantly affect what options you have.

Personally I have at a basic level Windows 7 media centre with a 2200 (twin DVB-T tuners) Totalmedia Theater for Bluray (integrates with media centre) and divx which gives mkv support. That would tick all your required boxes and is easy to setup.
Hardware wise look at my sig for ideas but main thing to keep in mind is you want cool and low power so think mostly low end/low power modern hardware.







Media centre PC - Case Silverstone LC16M with 2 X 80mm AcoustiFan DustPROOF, MOBO Gigabyte MA785GT-UD3H, CPU AMD X2 240 under volted, RAM 4 Gig DDR3 1033, HDD 120Gig System/512Gig data, Tuners 2 X Hauppauge HVR-3000, 1 X HVR-2200, Video Palit GT 220, Sound Realtek 886A HD (onboard), Optical LiteOn DH-401S Blue-ray using TotalMedia Theatre Power Corsair VX Series, 450W ATX PSU OS Windows 7 x64

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