MythTV is an incredibly ambitious suite of applications designed to sit at the heart of your home entertainment centre. It records, pauses and rewinds television, plays music and videos, catalogues your photo and DVD collections, browses the internet, makes phone calls, delivers the news and the weather and plays games - and it does all this thanks to the power of Linux.

"If you put Microsoft at the center of your home entertainment system, be prepared to hand them the remote control, literally.

The Ubuntu Media Centre Team have decided to use Elisa as their core infrastructure to push the free software media centre effort forward.

I e-mailed Sony to ask about their Blu-ray burner... their response was (to read) the official system requirements for the drive. The official system requirement is Windows XP. Sony does not support the drive on Windows Vista... MORE->

Element is an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers featuring a ten-foot user interface and designed to be connected to a HDTV.

A Windows user who wants to evaluate Linux, or any other alternative operating system, on their current system has a large number of options. In this article, we will look at those options for the busy Windows user who is evaluating Linux, wants to use open source applications, but doesn't want to lose access to their Windows system.

Acoustic Reality is a Danish company that sells speakers, amplifiers, storage devices, cables, and other products to build top-shelf home entertainment centers.

...we're looking at 8.9-inches dolled up in a sub-$500 price tag with a choice of both Windows XP Home or Ubuntu Linux, 8-in-1 card reader, integrated webcam, direct media playback buttons, and a "host of wireless access options."

This article will be about running a home-entertainment server, using Ubuntu GNU/Linux at its core, with TV functionality from the powerful MythTV project. Above all, this project will be about interoperability - not every household runs an all-Linux setup, so we'll be looking at multiple ways to enjoy your server's functions without needing to replace every OS in the house.