In any house, television is a wonderful source of entertainment. Combined with properly configured computer and audio system, your television can become an excellent entertainment and media center in your house. When making a media center, bigger is often better. You need high definition TV with at least 1080p resolution and it’s better to have 4k TV. Make sure that your entire media center setup supports high resolution. Mid-range computer hardware should already support 4k resolution and you can also put a Blu Ray drive on your computer. If you can afford only budget computer, make sure that it doesn’t cause stuttering. Many video cards already include HDMI support, so they should worth the money. Without Blu Ray films and 4k resolution, you will miss out excellent movie-watching experience.
Make sure that the media center is well integrated with the computer. There should be a good interface that is controlled with the remote, so you don’t need to use keyboard and mouse. If you have a high resolution smart TV, you can use your Android smartphone as the remote. The interface will be shown on your smartphone screen and you can decide what to do with your media center setup. In your computer, you can install the Netflix media center, so you can easily stream content through it. You will be able to easily search, browse and watch things in the Netflix. Netflix offers a lot of content that you can stream quite easily and you can see various films and TV shows instantly. There are other software solutions that you can install as well.
One good option is to install the Hulu application for desktop, which gives you plenty of streaming content for your media center. Hulu should also work well with your smart TV and Android smartphone. Another program that you would like is the Media Center Studio that is free to download. The software is constantly updated, so it should support new hardware, such as Blu-Ray. This is will be a good thing, if you play to run plenty of 4k content. There are plenty of online options that you can use, so you shouldn’t be confused with what you do. Things can be easily done, if you are persistent enough. Even if you still have a standard TV, it could still become a decent media center, even without a computer.
Most of the time, budget computer is enough to help you run a good media center. If you have an old computer, it should already run a DVD player, which provides you a decent quality for casual entertainment center. Check whether your old computer can accept newer video cards that support higher resolution up to 4k. Many low-end video graphic cards are quite capable and you can find good options under $100. One thing to remember is that DVI ports don’t output audio, so you need to use separate audio cables. If you don’t have a TV with VGA port, then you need to set up a converter to turn the signal into analog form.
