So, you have been dreaming about your ideal home media center. You have visions of a massive 102cm Plasma screen on the wall with an awesome PC to boot, but your choice of OS and software is still a mine field. Hopefully this will give you the answers you are looking for. Here is an opensource Media Center how-to that makes Windows XP Media center look like you grandmothers radio which she is still referring to as the ”Wireless”.

Just for the record, Apples Front Row looks pretty awesome too, just gotta have a mac, which doesnt help if you dont have Mac hardware. Unless you can find it in your heart to donate me one of these babies….