HTPC

Digital Media prices are on the rise. The progress that new technology has made in content delivery and price is being rolled back in part by a clever business model learned from facebook; limited competition; and subversion by the old media industry. We're going to lose the transformative power of the internet to protect the consumer.

This is a guide to picking parts and building yourself an HTPC that will manage your entire entertainment experience and function as your household storage hub and file server. You won't be spending very much money on this Home Theater PC unless you want some extra bells and whistles, but once you get the basic idea of the functionality of the machine, you can tweak it to your desire. I've picked hardware that allows for expansion - you can add more RAM and Hard Drive space, but the form factor is still reasonably sized.