Home Theater PCs

I have been haring a lot about the already in progress merger between personal computers and TV’s. Most say that in the near future everyone that has cable/dish will rid their self of those high dollar monthly payments and use their very on computer(s) to control every ounce of media entertainment in their home. Some have already started.

After doing some research, I found most of your PC manufactures have already started creating the ultimate front seat theater including HP, Dell, Sony and many more! Now days a PC can serve as a TiVo-style recorder, Blu-ray and DVD player, digital video archive and a PC — all in one box. Merge a big-screen high-definition TV with a home theater PC, and you have a monitor that puts even those monster 30” PC LCD’s to a halt.

HOW DO I GET SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
Sony - Sony’s elegant VAIO TP25 Home Theater PC ($3,000) has a 500-gigabyte hard drive, a Blu-ray burner and two external HDTV tuners.

Dell - Dell’s XPS 420 offering Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor; 4GB² Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM; 750GB - 7200RPM HD. ($1500)

HP - HP’s Pavilion Elite m9300t Intel Core 2 Quad Q930; 512-megabyte NVIDIA 9500GS video card; 1-terabyte hard drive storage and a Blu-ray player and DVD burner combo drive.($1600)

Build Your Own - You’ll need two TV tuner PCI-E cards (enable TV recording); 2 terabytes of Hard Drive space (consider HD programming takes about 6 gigs alone, the more the better); HDMI output; GOOD video cards including NVIDIA’s GeForce 9000 or ATI’s Radeon HD3000 series; 7.1 channels of surround sound (Creative Technology’s X-Fi cards are among the best)

It is time to merge that computer room along with your den/living room and make it a new home theater that will accommodate all your multimedia needs.

Do you feel this technology will soon become popular among homes? If so, how will it effect the industry?

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