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Imperial News Bounty Hunter | Affilliate Review: AVADirect Custom HTPC Evaluation AVADirect Custom HTPC Evaluation  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by hardopc |  | | | | | | | | |
As a PC, we can whole-heartedly recommend the AVADirect. As an HTPC, however, we felt there were some major misses. About the only aspect of this HTPC that impressed us was the great up-conversion that it performed on DVDs. Otherwise, recording TV shows was very rudimentary, and our configuration made no allowance for HDTV recording or FM tuning. It's true that some additional hardware upgrades would have resolved most of our problems with the HTPC, but, at the same time, users would have to balance out the extra cost of such upgrades with the capabilities that they are looking for. With the basic setup that we received, this is a capable, albeit incredibly expensive, DVR setup. Full Story at hardopc | |  | |  | | |
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