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Rob92
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I've had an old laptop gathering dust for months because the keyboard stopped working - I figured I could put it to use as a "top box" for my TV and did a bit of research.
I found a media centre called XBMC - it's great! You just shove all your TV shows and movies into correctly named folders, number episodes like "S01E01", update the library and you have artwork, episode info etc for all your stuff in a sleek and customizable fashion.
You can get an app for Android/iOS to use your phone as a remote, so I've just plugged it in via HDMI to my TV, filled the hard drive with movies, tv shows and music and use my phone as the remote. It's very simple to stream content from any PC on the network as well.
So easy to use and full of features, there's so many add-ons and extensions as well - I highly recommend it.
I use the Aeon Nox skin, vid below:
YouTube - XBMC Eden - Aeon Nox Skin May 2012
http://xbmc.org/
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