Home Theatre computer

[Amos Shapira]

2009/11/6 Noam Rathaus <noamr at beyondsecurity.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a "pre-built" system that I can seamlessly and easily
> install Boxee on it.
>
> I am not interested in building one from scratch, as my goals are:
> 1) ease of installation
> 2) silence - the computer has to be dead-quite
> 3) everything just there - i mean, I don't want to buy X, Y and Z from three
> different places
> 4) has to be small and look slick
>
> AND most importantly
> 5) Has to have/come with a remote control
>
> Does anyone know of such units being sold in Israel?

Sorry no answer from me about this one.

But if you are like me - I suspect that you might be looking for
something to allow you to watch Internet media as well as digital TV
on your large screen TV in the living room, right?

I recently learned about DLNA (dlna.org) - there are apparently
thousands of devices supporting it and the TV's among them which do it
properly should allow viewing of media over LAN (or even wireless LAN)
and there are apparently some open source efforts to support its
server-side on Linux too.

My current (mid-term) plan is to get my hands on one of these TV's,
get a proper Digital TV tuner card on my desktop Linux and serve media
from the Linux over Wirless N or wired LAN to the TV.

I have absolutely zero experience with actually implementing this or
even seeing/reading about someone who did. I just read a bit about it
in the last few weeks.

Cheers,

--Amos