Missed any installments of our Cutting the Cord Series? Catch up on them here:
Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC – The Hardware
Cutting the Cord Part 3: Building your HTPC – OS...
Now that we’ve finished most of the setup, we’re ready to hook our HTPC up to our TV! Simply reconnect everything and hook your HTPC up to your TV (or receiver). You don’t need to hook them up, but it’s a good idea to...
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And there you go; your HTPC is running Windows Media Center! Scroll around with your remote control and ensure the remote is working correctly. At this point feel free to explore a bit, but there...
Now we begin the process of setting up our TV signal and scanning what our tuner cards are able to receive through the antenna. Windows Media Center should detect what tuner cards are installed in the system and list them. If you do not see...
Once you begin the Custom setup, you’ll be greeted with the Media Center Setup screen describing the two primary portions of setup, “Required Setup” and “Optional Setup”. The “Required Setup” will check and...
Missed any installments of our Cutting the Cord Series? Catch up on them here:
Cutting the Cord Part 1: The Assessment
Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC – The Hardware
Cutting the Cord Part 3: Building your HTPC – OS...
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Running a Media Center PC has different power requirements than a normal PC. While you normally would want a PC to go to sleep or hibernate when it’s not used for a long period of time to save some money on your power bill, doing that on a...
The following step is only needed if you are using more than one drive/SSD. During Windows installation, our primary drive was partitioned and setup, but now we’ll need to do the same for our secondary/storage drive. To do that, we use...
Now that you have Windows up and running, Media Center won’t magically start and wash away your cable or satellite bill. We need to set up Media Center for that, but before we do that, there are various tweaks and settings we need to...
