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Elite entertainment PC roundup and review

c|net has a pretty good roundup and review of what they're calling "Elite entertainment PCs". They range from $2,500-$6,000, and are basically souped up Windows Media Center PCs with all the bells and whistles. They're designed to sit in home theater racks so they're all quiet and come in pretty cool looking cases, but after reading the review it sounds like the entire bunch is fairly overpriced.

It still seems like you could get a copy of BeyondTV or SageTV, a new HD tuner card, and a thousand dollar pentium PC to get the same performance as these monsters.

by Matt Haughey September 22, 2005 in News

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In addition, with SageTV you aren't limited to just two HD tuners like you are with MCE and can always take advantage of our Firewire capture plugin to get your HD Digital Cable.

Posted by: Dan at Sep 22, 2005 1:45:30 PM

But...people always will pay for what they feel is "convenience". Having a 'souped up' system is just that convenience, and people will buy. Todd Lokken.

Posted by: Todd Lokken at Sep 24, 2005 8:00:33 PM

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