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Media Centre PC's are a dedicated multimedia PC for the purposes of home entertainment. The computer case is designed to look and feel like a HiFi or stereo component.
Key features of the computer are dual HDTV tuner card, HDMI output capable graphics card, generous HDD space, appropriate media centre operating system (or equivalent ), a DVD or Blu Ray player, 5.1 Surround Sound and most importantly a remote control.
The media centre PC is designed to reside near your TV with the display output going directly to the TV and the sound optionally to a 5.1 AV receiver or the TV as required. The PC can also be connected to your local area network and out to the internet and other shared resources (media files) on other PC's etc.
Once set up and configured the media PC should be capable of viewing and recording free to air digital broadcast, viewing and playing Blu Ray and DVD movies, MP3 and various other media formats.
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NAS or Networked attached storage is an external storage device, typically a hard disk drive, that instead of being attached directly to a specific computer is connected to the LAN (local area network) as a stand alone device.
The NAS is usually configured via a web interface that can be accessed via any of the usual web browsers. Once configured the NAS can be connected to through windows explorer and mapped as a network drive and will appear as another drive in the explorer tree with the assigned drive letter.
Benefits: The benefits of a NAS device over other external storage drives is the ability to have multiple computers connect to the drive at the same time without the need for any specific computer to be on (ie sharing a USB external drive). Further as the device draws comparatively low power by comparison to a computer it can be left on and used as an effective back up drive for multiple machines in your business network.
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