Convert that spare computer to an awesome Home Theatre Entertainment Machine!

XBMC Media Center is an award-winning Home Theatre PC software designed to be a media player for the living-room TV. With its beautiful "10-foot" graphical user interface, you can easily manage video, photos and music using a remote control or wireless keyboard. XBMC feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theatre. It is a popular alternative to Microsoft's Windows Media Center and Apple's Front Row. With XBMC installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

XBMC can play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It's designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations.

This XBMC Live CD is a complete operating system. You can:

• use it to convert a computer into a dedicated Home Theatre PC, or
• simply put the CD in the drive & start the computer - then you can use it temporararily as a Home Theatre PC (no installation required, when you're done just take the CD out again and switch the computer off).

Don't pay exorbitant prices for proprietary software. Buying this CD will save you a lot of effort, but you can actually download XBMC free from the internet if you have the time and patience (and if you know how to create a Bootable Install CD from your download).

Ideally, your computer should have a DVD drive & be less then 5 years old, with at least 512MB memory & 20GB of free hard-drive space.