![]() ![]() Thankfully, today we have HDMI with its vastly better performance and standardized resolution, which makes an inexpensive home media center a reality. After struggling with systems that never looked right, I gave up for a few years. I had the same sad result from Linux and Windows 98. ![]() And it was ugly: I had an S-Video cable running across my living room floor to my 19″ Sony Trinitron CRT TV set. The onscreen result didn’t look very nice and there was no audio output. I used what was known as a “TV-out” card, which had an extra output to connect to a standard television set. My first attempt to set up an “entertainment PC” was back in the late 1990s, using a plain old desktop computer with a Trident ProVidia 9685 PCI graphics card. Turn an old Linux desktop into a home media center.
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