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Home Theater PCs set to explode?

CNN reviews Snapstream and sums it up best:

I have seen the future of television, and it lies within a computer.

This review (we reviewed Snapstream too), coupled the recent PSX launch, simple front-ends like this, and posts like this (from a venture capitalist, no less), it's looking more and more like predictions such as these could come true:

There will be a Home Theater PC in most living rooms within 5 years

I'm surprised there aren't more startups springing up to capitalize on the combination of cheap hardware and the shareware and opensource programs out there to do it all.

UPDATE: eHomeUpgrade has links to a cool home theater PC that's like a shuttle PC on the inside, but looks like a standard mini-stereo on the outside.

by Matt Haughey October 8, 2003 in News

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