This article is a brief insight on what a PC and digital technology combined can achieve  June 2003

Enjoy the Home Theatre experience.

Present The  Next Wave in Entertainment Technologies

Introducing the Home Theatre PC – a device that converges digital technologies into one box that carries out a multitude of tasks as an Entertainment Centre and Personal Computer. Surf the Net and watch digital terrestrial DVB TV at the same time.

This is a Digital Video Entertainment Centre and PC Combination - all for the price of a PC.
An unbelievable new generation of very compact personal computers for use in the office by day and as a home entertainment centre by night.

This is just the beginning of what the future will bring from your lounge or office chair.
 

With Home Theatre PC’s you can:

· Watch & record Digital TV.

· Pause the live TV program while you answer the phone or make a cup of coffee.

· Watch DVD Movies.

· Watch & record Satellite TV (optional extra) including Pay TV.
(requires subscription to Pay TV service)

· Convert all your old videos to CD or DVD format.

· Record that holiday video taken on your cam-corder, burin it onto a CD and mailed it to your friends.

· Watch a slide show from the photos taken on your digital camera

· Attach the photos from the digital camera to an email and send to friends

· Listen to CD music.

· Play the latest VCD

· Surf the Net while watching Digital TV or

· Let the children do their home work while you are viewing the six o'clock news

The attraction in using a PC for Home Theatre is that modern PC’s have an abundance of processing power along with superb data storage and handling facilities. Add to this the quantum leaps in PC graphics and display technology and you have an ideal platform for all forms of audio-visual entertainment.

A single Home Theatre PC can perform the combined functions of DVD Player, CD Player, HIFI Stereo, Video Cassette Recorder, Digital TV set top box and Satellite TV set top box. All this in addition to the normal PC functions of Internet, Email, Business use and whatever other software you care to install.

This dramatically lowers the cost of owning the hardware to perform all the above functions and is a much neater and integrated package.

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Aver Media Digital TV Card

(Model: AVer Media DVBT PCI Card)