Comments on: Custom Home Theater PC (HTPC)

By: Steve Poling

Steve Poling — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:10:25 +0000

Looking at your case mod I worry that your device might either run hot or have excessively loud cooling fans. Can you “underclock” so it’ll run cooler? Can you get quieter operation by liquid cooling?

This project appears to be well over a year old. What have you learned in the meantime that you’d do differently?

I have a Tivo Series 1 that my nephew gave me that I’m hoping to turn into a case mod HTPC.

By: George Blackwell

George Blackwell — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:52:43 +0000

Thanks for the information. XBMC is the best media player..Ever!

By: Joe A.

Joe A. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:06:27 +0000

Another Mod (Nintendo)
http://tech.nocr.at/hacking-security/nes-pc-casemod/

If TiVo was a Motorola you could put a L.e.d clock in it.

Be even cooler if it had a Dvd Recorder.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:07:21 +0000

@Joe A.
The Zotac Ion 330 is a dual core atom processor, but the important part about it is that it has Nvidia’s Ion GPU. High def video, as long as its played through software that takes advantage of the GPU should run 1080p without dropping frames.

I’ve been reading up a lot on the Zotac Ion boards with weekend and so far that seems to be the consensus.

By: Joe A.

Joe A. — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:44:44 +0000

“Zotac Ion 330 ITX Board” sounds like a mini-ITX, which is a MotherBoard that NetBooks are common to have.

Its made by Nvidia, but Intel was the first to introduce, something similar.

1.6ghz is good for Standard Def, but, may not run as good with High Def.

By: Kendrell

Kendrell — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:40:04 +0000

where did you get that xbmc software again?

By: Joe A.

Joe A. — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:17:23 +0000

Heres Another Similar Site:
http://www.instructables.com/id/VCR_Computer

By: Joe A.

Joe A. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:13:09 +0000

I have an old Motorola DigiBox and 1 or 2 old Vcr’s

Is it possible to transform these into a MediaCenter, actually I wouldn’t mind making a CD/DVD Drive and Floppy Available.

What tools would I need?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/the-vcr-media-center-pc-221596.php

By: Daniel H

Daniel H — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:16:44 +0000

Has anyone Looked at the zotac ion 330 itx board as an option for this kind of project.

By: Daniel H

Daniel H — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:41:33 +0000

Nice build I am starting to plan one of my own already have my series 2 TiVo torn apart in preporation. Planning on using one of those new Esata flash drives for the memory and I already have a MCE remote and ir reciever and I did a live install of XBMC on a spare harddrive and the remote works perfect no extra software needed.