A great and well-known service that lets you view content from all around the world, YouTube is often overlooked as a source of content for your HTPC. Perhaps this comes from the fact that most of its videos are short, aimed towards quick web-browsing, and not short and lengthy movies … read more
If you want to bring a variety of content to your Kodi HTPC, you will be relying on addons to help you with this. There are some addons that are a must-have for Kodi, and are detailed in our 20 best Kodi addons list. If you are interested in specific … read more
Don’t have an extra PC laying around, no problem, just run a Ubuntu home server on VirtualBox VM. I have been pumping out VirtualBox tutorials over the last two months. Some have asked me if VirtualBox is somehow related to HTPCs. This post will answer that question. This post is … read more
One of the biggest challenges in setting up your HTPC is the fact that there are many options available to configure it, making it easy to get confused if you don’t know how to configure Kodi XBMC. There are just a lot of settings, addons, and possibilities at your disposal. … read more
An open source alternative to the well-known media center software applications Plex and Kodi, Emby (which used to be called Media Browser 3) offers several options and capabilities that might come in handy for setting up your HTPC. This software application promises to enable you to bring all your media … read more
Since their humble and unassuming beginning in 2000 as media boxes that could stream music to your TV for a not-so-low price, Android media players have come a long way. Improvements in operating systems, hardware, and video output, have contributed them becoming great alternatives to Home Theater PCs. They are … read more
VOYO Mini PC could be a portable Home Theatre PC that seamlessly connects to your TV and hooks you up to the world of online entertainment: movies, TV shows, on demand sports streaming, photos, web surfing and more. Its support for 4K (UHDTV) graphic dispensation, and the latest incarnation of … read more
Hallelujah! Plex has recently announced a Roku Plex update in the form of a new Plex channel for Roku devices and it is one hell of an improvement!! You can see the announcement from Plex on the Plex blog. I recently wrote about the comparisons between Kodi vs Plex and … read more
Let us look at some of the most common network attached storage server or home server uses for the sake of people wondering why have a home server? Recently, we described what is HTPC and what it is used for? We also presented an energy efficient HTPC Home Server combo … read more