Home theatre or not?

[jalbes]

I'm building a new PC for my uncle, whom mostly uses it for multimedia purposes, but also for photo editing, e-mail and surfing the web. While looking for a suitable case to put his hardware into, I came across the Thermaltake Bach and Mozart Home Theatre PC cases. This had me rethink the potential of such a system and having it set up to his television and sound system to unify his multimedia/home theatre for entertainment.

I'm curious to know what everyones thoughts are on the home theatre approach, incase there's something that I may have overlooked. Has anyone tried this, what was your experience?

This link has more details on what I'd like to do:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/multimedia/display/thermaltake-bach-mozart.html

Thanks,
Shaun

[piasabird]

Here is an interesting Article about Multimedia Devices to build a home theater device.

http://www.anandtech.com/multimedia/showdoc.aspx?i=2761&p=2

Things to think about:

What kind of Sound System

What kind of Video equipment i.e. HDTV, Dual Tuner, Windows MCE?

Maybe try looking at using a new Core Duo motherboard that can run a Core Duo Mobile Processor.

Happague is one of the best PVR Multimedia TV Card.

Never tried this myself.