Your home theater can be as functional, or as simple, as you want it. You can make it a movie-dedicated area, with Full HD picture and 7.1 surround sound to reproduce Hollywood’s best, flawlessly. Or you can create a multimedia experience, offering guests access not only to movies, but also music, TV, pictures, websites and more, all from your HDTV and flat screen TV frame. For those going the more expansive route, many people choose to incorporate a home theater PC into their setup, to make a multimedia experience easier to navigate and more equipped for 21st century entertainment demands.
At its core, a home theater PC (HTPC) combines the functions of a traditional personal computer with a home theater multimedia center, offering you the video and music capabilities of a multimedia center in conjunction with computer applications such as web browsing. You can purchase HTPCs designed to function as a multimedia center, and these will often be equipped with a 10-foot or more user interface so that you can navigate via remote from your couch, as well as offering easy connectivity to an HDTV display.
