It’s true: The best way to control your home theater is still with a PC. Forget all the hype about Google Chromecast and other assorted set-top boxes, dongles, and other gadgets. None of them can ...

Media Center (the use of the American spelling of "centre" is unfortunately prevalent in MCE2005) is optimized to look good even on low resolution TVs and is best driven via a remote control. In ...

The new and tiny IdeaCentre Q190 offers Windows 8 Pro, an Intel core i3 processor, and up to 8GB of memory. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional.

Building a media or Home Theatre PC (HTPC) is an ideal project for anyone wanting to stream and enjoy content in the living room. A smaller chassis and less powerful machine helps keeps cost down as ...

Since this particular HTPC is designed to connect to your clients' already-existing home theater system, there&'s no need to spec out speakers, video displays, receivers/amplifiers, or input devices ...

Last year I built my first home-theater PC, or HTPC. I've been using it ever since to schedule TV recordings, browse the Web on a 50-inch plasma HDTV, stream music from Pandora, manage my video and ...

With new desktop software from Plex, plugging a computer into your television almost seems like a great idea. Plex HTPC, which officially launched last week, lets you access Plex’s over-the-air DVR ...

Let’s say you’ve connected both a high-end gaming PC and an inexpensive streaming video-streaming box to your 4K television. Which one do you think would be capable of streaming 4K video from sources ...

Media center app maker Plex introduced a new app for Windows and Mac OS Thursday that comes with some significant changes to its support for desktop PCs. Most notably, Plex is phasing out support for ...

Repurposing an old PC is one of the best ways to squeeze some more life out of hardware that might otherwise end up in the landfill. Here's how to get started fixing up an old PC you've salvaged, and ...