{"id":265,"date":"2011-02-15T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtecheasy.wordpress.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2011-02-15T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T21:31:14","slug":"turn-your-computer-into-a-multimedia-frontend-for-your-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/turn-your-computer-into-a-multimedia-frontend-for-your-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn your computer into a multimedia frontend for your tv!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of multimedia system out there, but I l believe the following 3 to be the best!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We like to think of MythTV as the ultimate Digital Video Recorder and home media center hub. Think of it as a Free and Open Source alternative to Windows Media Center or Tivo. It started out in 2002, the open source community quickly made it grow into a powerful tool for watching and recording television. With its plugin architecture, it has been transformed from a mere TV viewing application into a full home media center suite, capable of managing your personal photo, video, and music collections, as well as keep you up to date with the weather, a ZoneMinder home security system, and much, much more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>XBMC<\/strong> is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox. Created in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers, XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Boxee is the best way to watch movies, TV shows and clips from the Internet on your TV. You can buy a device powered by Boxee or build your own Boxee using a new or used computer. If it\u2019s available on the Internet, then you can probably watch it on your Boxee – there are more than 40,000 TV show episodes and movies currently available through Boxee. Plus, you can play personal stuff from your network or hard-drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a lot of multimedia system out there, but I l believe the following 3 to be the best! We like to think of MythTV as the ultimate Digital Video Recorder and home media center hub. Think of it as a Free and Open Source alternative to Windows Media Center or Tivo. It started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,11,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bourbonnaisservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}