Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine

• PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Home theater PC

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• towerful@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Way back when netflix was new, windows had a Home Theatre edition of windows.
  Beautiful 10ft UI, worked with tuners, could record from them, had no issues dealing with auto-ripped DVDs and had a native netflix integration.
  Then netflix pulled out, but windows HTPC was still pretty decent.
  Nowadays, it’s basically “you have to pay for everything” with a smart TV or a set top android box, maybe lucky enough to have a tuner in it.
  Or it’s high seas.
  I don’t think there is really a middle ground.

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  • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    XBMC became Kodi, you can still get that 10ft UI and it integrates with local media files like ripped DVDs and Blu-ray, or it’ll interop with any streaming service, or it’ll interop with high seas URLs.

    That gave way to Plex, which is a webapp to host your local media, which has grown very large and is out of favor. Jellyfin and others have taken up the mantel.

    In-between the two are the *arr suites of software which automate file sharing.

    It’s a rabbit hole if you’re interested. Feel free to google a y of these names and you’ll find a glut of how to articles online.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeh, I’ve looked at a bunch over the years. None have that DVR ability that windows Media Center Edition had.
      I feel like I should build up an arr stack, go down that rabbit hole, spend my streaming subscription money on a VPN and a private tracker (or whatever is required).
      I just haven’t yet.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • smort@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I run the Plex DVR with my HD Homerun OTA tuners. It works pretty well. Certainly much better than MythTV DVR did

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    • anivia@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That gave way to Plex, which is a webapp to host your local media, which has grown very large and is out of favor. Jellyfin and others have taken up the mantel.

      I think you overestimate the prevalence of Jellyfin. Plex is still more widely used, for good reason

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      • aodhsishaj@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll sit here and wait for the jellyfin fans to find this comment.

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  • fadedmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    HTPC wasn’t a Windows thing though Microsoft did have Windows Media Center, which was a pretty slick interface for HTPCs

    I used to use XBMC, which is now Kodi, for an interface. Before that I just used a PC running Mandrake Linux with a wireless mouse and keyboard. Haha.

    Had a TV tuner, acted as a DVR, and also could play my library of SNES and NES games through it.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Windows MCE, that was it! Not HTPC.
      I knew a guy that built a career using xbmc in a professional environment, scripted out the wazoo to make it not look like xbmc.
      I think I even tried running it on an actual Xbox, and being impressed with it. But MCE on a spare laptop was better. I eventually built an HTPC to run MCE.

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  • laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or it’s high seas.

    It’s always the high seas.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Home Theater PC.

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• SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Had to look it up. They mean Home Theater PC.

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• AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought that meant High Tower PC

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• Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Home theatre PC

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