arnprasad
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone,
My friend yesterday bought a Sony EX 720 46 incher for a lakh and Onkyo 509/Pure Acoustics combo for 45K. He currently has big TV SD dish and on old DVD Player.
Unfortunately after having spent a bomb, he does not have any sources to input HD into his system leave alone 3D.
So I told him the cheapest way to get HD on his TV is to buy Tata Sky HD DVR and instead of wasting money on Blue Ray 3D player, it is cheaper to build a HTPC which can be connecting to his Onkyo.
He is not willing to spend more than 15K on the HTPC and my question to you is to suggest if its possible to build a HTPC for 15K considering the following:
1) The maximum load it will take is to play 3D HD content into the Onkyo or Sony.
2) 5.1 sound
3) Absolutely no gaming
4) AMD or INtel - dont care as long as it does the job
5) Dont care about graphics card if INtel HD is good enough
6)Minimum needed RAM and 1TB of hard drive
7) The tower may not be the greatest..just needs to look decent next to the HT setup
8) Prefer WIFI but if its more than 1K..can plug the network cable into
9) Dont care abt Blue ray drive since finding 3D Blu Rays is a rarity, DVD player will do as long we can download 1080P content and play it
10) Should be able to do what computers normally - install software, OS, Browser, XBMC....etc
11) Should be capable of using wireless keyboard and mouse or remote control. - so infrared or blue tooth or whatever
12) He is not a techie and hence should be simple plug and play
Please let me know the cheapest but a decent build possible and how much it is going to cost
My friend yesterday bought a Sony EX 720 46 incher for a lakh and Onkyo 509/Pure Acoustics combo for 45K. He currently has big TV SD dish and on old DVD Player.
Unfortunately after having spent a bomb, he does not have any sources to input HD into his system leave alone 3D.
So I told him the cheapest way to get HD on his TV is to buy Tata Sky HD DVR and instead of wasting money on Blue Ray 3D player, it is cheaper to build a HTPC which can be connecting to his Onkyo.
He is not willing to spend more than 15K on the HTPC and my question to you is to suggest if its possible to build a HTPC for 15K considering the following:
1) The maximum load it will take is to play 3D HD content into the Onkyo or Sony.
2) 5.1 sound
3) Absolutely no gaming
4) AMD or INtel - dont care as long as it does the job
5) Dont care about graphics card if INtel HD is good enough
6)Minimum needed RAM and 1TB of hard drive
7) The tower may not be the greatest..just needs to look decent next to the HT setup
8) Prefer WIFI but if its more than 1K..can plug the network cable into
9) Dont care abt Blue ray drive since finding 3D Blu Rays is a rarity, DVD player will do as long we can download 1080P content and play it
10) Should be able to do what computers normally - install software, OS, Browser, XBMC....etc
11) Should be capable of using wireless keyboard and mouse or remote control. - so infrared or blue tooth or whatever
12) He is not a techie and hence should be simple plug and play
Please let me know the cheapest but a decent build possible and how much it is going to cost