With the rising prevalence of dual cores and the fact that the Xbox 360 will work out of box as a HD Media Extender this is becoming a more attractive option. Of course you can always take it as opportunities to upgrade your current PC and throw the remains in a box. The down side is that you have to build an extra PC and as it turns out those aren’t free. You won’t have to worry about a recording, or someone else in the house watching a show when you’re playing a game and slowing down you’re system and you won’t have to mess around with trying to get a single over to your TV. The advantage here is that you have a computer that is dedicated to MCE so it will get, bar none, the best performance when using MCE. Windows Media Center Edition 2005 OEM is about $115 or so, and doesn’t require any additional subscriptions to Guide data or any other additional costs:
There are two ways to go about building an MCE 2005 box: use a standalone PC hooked into an entertainment system that is dedicated to being just an MCE box or use a standard use PC that runs MCE and having it hooked to a TV with long cables or using a Media Center Extender (or an Xbox or Xbox 360).
At its heart MCE 2005 is just Windows XP Pro w/ a couple extra apps & services designed to record and view multimedia sources.
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