video playback
Ever since creating my first home theater PC, I've archived my Netflix rental DVDs to files on the hard drive. I don't do this because I want to rip off the movie industry; I do it for convenience. It's easier to deal with a
.net
As far as I'm concerned, Windows Media Center is one of the best-- if not the best-- applications Microsoft has ever created. And it was written in .NET to boot. I've been a huge MCE enthusiast since the original version was released in 2003, so I
hardware
When the first version of Windows Media Center [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx] was released in summer 2003, I decided it was time to build my first home theater PC. After I placed it in the living room, I realized I had made a terrible mistake: I