HTPC Decent home theater PC

Hi Guys,

im after a decent budget HTPC that i can plug my virgin media box into (if this cant be done then dont worry) and store pictures, home videos, music, and dvds on. Also im after a decent tv to go with it. i have a budget of about a grand.

what would you recomened?

many thanks

Bill

 

for that you could build a monster all depends on what kind of size it you want to be really

 

that is for tv and HTPC, id need enough space to hold all the data and for it to be quick enough as well.

 

What size of tv do you want? Also do you want the cheapest HD tv for that size? Just working out your pc budget here.

 

forget the Virgin Media box

http://www.digital-everywhere.com/en/alcms/index.php?sid=1190057723 + a CAM (nagravision)

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(I'm not sure if MCE supports DVB-C, but this does) http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

Much neater than messing about with a remote blaster for the VM box

 

Not going to work I'm afraid.

Virgin just changed over to Nagra 3 so you can't use anything but their boxes anymore.

 

Oh really? well that blows, been about 18 months since I was with Virgin so I hadn't kept up

 

Mate, get yourself latest Custom PC, there's perfect article for you, as a part of how to watch and stream your movies to a tv. There's what specs and what's important on HTPC.