TiVo and its brethren get credit for introducing the average consumer to the concept of the digital video recorder (DVR) and opening the door to bigger and better things. The Home Theater PC (HTPC) is ...

There has been a lot of talk in the last year about SteamBox, but at the end of 2014, very little, if anything was shown that really brought this into the hands of consumers. There’s a few systems ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. It has been quite a while since I last went under the hood of my current Home Theater PC (HTPC), but judging by the gradual degrading performance that I ...

Okoro Media Systems or OMS has certainly found a niche when it comes to Home Theater PCs. The company was started less than 2 years ago and is already converting skeptics of the HTPCs and bringing ...

ARCTIC’s sales blurb describes the MC001-XBMC as a “full-system media centre (which) fulfils all your home entertainment needs”. Furthermore the system is based upon the latest edition of XBMC 12 ...

I have always had a fascination with computers - I think it started in second grade when we were allowed to design simple ASCII art programs on a Commodore Pet. With the advent of current technology, ...

Test System Configuration Notes: We compared the ASRock Vision 3D HTPC's performance to an array of other HTPC systems we've used in the past. We compared the Vision 3D to a number of AMD Zacate E-350 ...

Performance Summary: The ASRock Vision 3D 252B performed very well throughout our entire battery of tests. Its performance in comparison to the other HTPC and low-power systems we tested was excellent ...

CyberPowerPC has launched a new range of passively cooled home theatre PC (HTPC) systems. Six systems have been unveiled, three configurations using AMD 'Richland' APUs and three using 'Haswell' Intel ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. ASRock has been in the game of making home theatre computers for some years now. They just keep getting better and better. Admittedly there hasn't been ...

A mainstream operating system finally makes the home theater PC (HTPC) for the masses a reality. In the past, there have been attempts at hacking together an HTPC-type device, with smaller companies ...

With the setup we’ve tested today, assuming you chose to go with a single Sapphire R9 280X Tri-X Vapor-X graphics card, you would be looking at an investment of approximately £796.93, let’s just call ...