Home Theater Hard Drive Media Player

As your movie collection grows, it gets increasingly hard to keep your home theater organized. The average Canadian home theater has more than 150 DVDs, and keeping all that in one place is tedious as well as space-consuming. If you have a steadily growing movie library, consider getting a home theater hard drive media player to make your job easier.

Hard drive media players are basically high-end, high-capacity computers housed in a compact media box. They allow you to store all your movies, songs, pictures, and other media on a built-in hard drive, so you don’t have to keep changing discs. Newer HD home theater players have color screens, keyboards, and mouse controllers that let you use them as you would a regular desktop computer.

Of course, these things don’t come cheap: a midrange HD media player will cost around $4,000, which is way beyond the average Canadian home theater owner’s budget. If you know a bit about PC components, you can attempt to build one on your own, but you’ll also have to splurge on a high-end video card, fast processor, and a huge hard drive.

When you’ve bought (or built) your home theater media player, you’ll want a cool media player case to go with it. A good case will help keep the box cool and make it blend better with your home theater dйcor. If you’re buying from a Canadian home theater shop, look for one that comes as a package with a matching case to save a few dollars.