Quote Originally Posted by DJzen
You've got it backwards. Multimedia taxes system resources more than anything. Good speakers are expensive. Good graphics cards are expensive. Good monitors are expensive. Processors powerful enough to handle all these demands are expensive. That's just how it works. I'm not sure what these more advanced work applications are that you were thinking of, but while MS Office is indeed a memory hog, it's not NEARLY as bad as running a modern game. Unless you're working for Pixar you're probably not running intensive apps for work. If you ARE working for Pixar, that again relates to Multimedia, and is in a whole special category by itself. If the set top box DID come around it certainly wouldn't be cheap, but it might be cheap-er than having a computer, a DVD player, a game console, a DVR, a scanner, a printer, a phone and a home stereo system all seperately.
I tend to aggree that while your tv will be rigged to a multimedia computer thus *needing more power*; What I was really gonna say was that your multimedia computer and PC will remain seperated. By more advanced uses I meant mainly work and other nont media leisure time activities. I ment the applications were more advanced, not the tools required to run them. Poorly worded I guess and sorry. I don't ever think that the Home Theatre will get more ADVANCED than the pc. It will remain a media propriatary system.

Video games, DVD entertainment, Television, smellovision and all the other multimedia entertainment on one computer, and other systems on another. I don't really think (or hope) that home theaters get more out of control and over the top.

I think that families spending money on more of an integrated network of your PCs and derived machines would be a better way of doing things while running your theatre seperatley. Say for those people who live with families, know that having more than one computer now adays seems essential.

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