Home Theatre computer

[Marc Volovic]

Yes, there is such a unit. It is called Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Pro,  
whichever is your poison.

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Marc. Volovic
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On Nov 6, 2009, at 14:29, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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