What You Said: What’s Powering Your Media Center

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Ask The Readers

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Earlier this week we asked you to share your media center setups, tips, and tricks. Now we’re back to share of the great comments you left.

The range of techniques you all use for getting access to your media is impressive. Some readers had setups as simple as tamasksz’s setup:

WDTV Live with an external HDD… So simple, but works.

Others started with simple setups, like a WDTV Live, and worked their way up, like Dave:

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