Despite the rising popularity of streaming set-top box hardware over the last few years, the HTPC community continues to thrive among home theater enthusiasts that have large collections of video ...

I've removed my HTPC finally the past weekend. Just don't need it anymore, I'm streaming all my movies via DLNA to my SmartTV. My wife and kids are either hooked on their iPads or laptop in the living ...

The Mac mini (lowercase, please) has served as the entry-level option in Apple’s Mac lineup since its introduction in 2005. The system’s modest energy footprint and impressively compact form factor ...

HTPCs pioneered modern media options with a PC-TV combo. HTPCs were too expensive and complicated. The rise of software like the Xbox media player apps led to the decline of dedicated HTPCs. The HTPC ...

Two or three years ago you would’ve been hard-pressed to find me even entertaining the idea of owning a home theater PC (HTPC), but then I bought a house and all bets were off – I just had to have one ...

Windows/OS X/Linux: If you've built the media center of your dreams and download your entertainment, you probably want an easy way to manage it all from another computer or when you're not home. HTPC ...

I have always had a fascination with computers - I think it started in second grade when we were allowed to design simple ASCII art programs on a Commodore Pet. With the advent of current technology, ...

The computer age has brought with it technological advancements almost too numerous to count. And yes, many of those advancements have been tagged with acronyms that don't exactly convey what the heck ...

It seems a lot of the times that I do run across some sort of HTPC chassis, they seem to be as tiny as possible to not be an intrusion on your home theaters design or layout. The benefit of these ...

Late last month, Google stunned us all when it released the Chromecast HDMI dongle, a $35 streaming stick that’s capable of bringing Netflix, YouTube, and Google ...

In case you missed it during the early days of Windows 8, the era of the home theater PC (HTPC) is over—at least for Microsoft. When Windows 10 rolls out this summer it will not be able to run Windows ...