On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Shawn Tan <shawn.tan@aeste.net> wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008 12:54:36 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> Yes my LCD TV comes with VGA connection and I have
>> tested it with the Compaq notebook. It works quite nicely.
>> But I am looking at a permanent setup.
>
> Oh, what do you mean by permanent?

I mean I would put that device to be attached to
the LCD TV in the living room. I would not want to
bring the laptop PC (no HDMI) from the other room
(the study room with Cable modem and router, desktop
PC, a laptop PC and the NAS) to play video.

Currently, the Wii console and a DVD player are
attached to the LCD TV through AV connection.
The DVD player is basically useless. I played
DVD less times than the times I went to cinema.

Unfortunately my old laptop (Dell Inspiron 600M
with WiFi) suffers a big problem with the keyboard
controller (random key output). If not, I may make
use of it.

> I'm interested to know because I have also been thinking
> of building a HTPC on my own for a while now. I have been
> toying around with some random ideas too.
>
> http://blog.sybreon.com/index.php/tags/htpc/
>

Yeah, that was my thinking as well. A small PC
with a HDMI enabled graphic card can be a
good option. But now I feel that PCs are too
troublesome compared to dedicated device.
Dedicated device has less flexibility but in general
consume less power and boots faster.

Xiaofan
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