Sound & Vision Builds an HTPC

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By Daniel Schoerner

Hardware

Apr 28 2009

Sound & Vision gives it a go and builds their own HTPC. They target the Mac Mini as the platform to beat, which I'm not sure is really the right point of comparison due to the pain of adding lots of tuners to it. What do you guys think of their build?