Not-so-simple wiring
Pressing a general-purpose PC into Media Center service means dealing with wires and dongles. At lower left is a Creative digital I/O adapter with a TOSlink (optical) connection to the receiver; above it is a DMS-59 to dual DVI-I breakout cable, with a 6-foot DVI-to-HDMI cable going to the display. Coax runs to an indoor antenna, and that's a Cat-5e connection to the network.
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- Thanks Ed for a wonderful article. It got me to finally move off my rear end and do something to unify my home thretre system.
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  Hardwired Ed Bott  | 08/24/07 |
 I'm ready but AT&T isn't john.st.lawrence@... | 08/24/07 |
| What a mess rhon@... | 08/24/07 |
| AppleTV doesn't do enough Ed Bott | 08/24/07 |
| Awesome. The same machine that xuniL_z | 08/24/07 |
| Nice.. i built three Been_Done_Before | 08/24/07 |
| Dang! raharrin@... | 08/24/07 |
| Backup mariom@... | 08/24/07 |
| Backup NoFlamesPlz | 08/24/07 |
| Actually, I'm using the final code for WHS Ed Bott | 08/25/07 |
| Home Theater Installer Opinion jshields | 08/25/07 |
| CableCard now, DirecTV someday Ed Bott | 08/25/07 |
| Check out this vendors epaval@... | 08/27/07 |
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