Ask the Readers: What’s Powering Your Media Center?

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Ask The Readers

Whether your media center is laptop you occasionally plug into your television or a whole-house arrangement of computers with a home server dishing up the movies and music, we want to hear about your media center system and what you have installed on it.

With the recent release of XBMC 11.0 Eden, we have media centers on the brain. This week we want to hear all about your home media center solutions. What kind of hardware and software are you using? How do you have things configured? What tweaks have you applied to your media center to improve your experience?

Sound off in the comments with your media center knowledge and then check back on Friday for the What You Said roundup!

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