 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
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Mount Airy, MD | reply to maartena
Re: Make your own! said by maartena:And it just needs to play video, its not a gaming console.  Heh... you say that... but there's something to be said about playing UT on a big screen TV. 
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 maartenaElmoPremium
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| said by pnh102:said by maartena:And it just needs to play video, its not a gaming console. Heh... you say that... but there's something to be said about playing UT on a big screen TV. Yep, if you are into gaming.... you can also buy xbox-like controllers and use your big screen TV to play PC games.
But you would need a fairly powerful CPU and fairly powerful graphicscard to do that. Playing DivX Video can be done on a 800 Mhz PIII with 256 Mb of memory you just happen to have lying around.
My Media Center is a AMD 2000+, 768 Mb, 80 Gb. It is actually my wife's PC that she no longer uses now that she has claimed our laptop as her PC
And as I said, you can even use Linux, and a free Media Center alternative. All you would need is a compatible remote, and for about $50 your old PC can serve a new life as a digital media station in the livingroom.
Of course it can also play MP3's and playlists, and believe it or not..... you can play solitaire quite nicely with the remote! 
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium
join:2005-01-03 | You all are going to laugh at me for this, but I play DivX Video on a 5 year old Toshiba Satellite running WinXP Pro with a 700mhz P3 and 64, that's right, only 64mb of ram! Of course, I certainly DO NOT try to do anything else on it while it is playing.
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