Anyone setup their PC as an HT (home theater) PC?

[Looneybomber]

I'm thinking about doing that in the near future. I'm going to backup all of my DVD's on my HDD's so I can pack them up (no room for them and my 1 y/o tosses them all over the room.) With my current setup, I will need better DVD software and sound card...maybe vid card too. Both need to be 7.1 compatable and ideally HD ready. That way I wont have to upgrade yet again once I start viewing HD-DVD's and/or BRD's (Blue Ray Disks).

What kind of DVD player, DVD software, vid and sound card are you using?

[szh]

How many DVD's were you planning to store on hard drives? You may need a lot of disk storage ... terabytes perhaps, if you have many movies!

Might be better to get a DVD changer player that can store multiple hundreds of disks ... I think they make those now (not just audio CD changers, that is)

Z

[Looneybomber]

Might be better to get a DVD changer player that can store multiple hundreds of disks

Yeah, they do. They even have dual format HD-DVD/BRD with built in HDD's for audio, video and picture storage. The cost is quite high though. As for my DVD collection, I probably only have 50-70? Nothing a 500gb HDD couldn't handle.

[szh]

Yeah, they do. They even have dual format HD-DVD/BRD with built in HDD's for audio, video and picture storage. The cost is quite high though. As for my DVD collection, I probably only have 50-70? Nothing a 500gb HDD couldn't handle.

Yes, that should be fine. Most normal DVD's have less than 10GB each - the wide-screen ones may be larger though ...

I have a few more DVD's though, so my options along these lines would be limited. I think one of those changers may be in the future for me ... and you right, they are a bit expensive right now, so I will wait.

Z