Right now I'm using my 5 year old laptop and using it to play movies from the harddrive and displaying it on the TV (60" Vizio smart TV). Im connecting it using VGA and using a headphone jack on the computer for sound which goes to my receiver.
I just bought a new receiver (Denon AVRS500BT) and will buy some speakers off craigslist (Klipsch HD Theater Speakers) and would like to upgrade my computer now.
My wants are:
-HDMI out to maintain surround sound and audio and video quality.
-Large harddrive (1 TB or more) to store all the movies I currently have.
-Can handle audio and video needs for movies easily
-Web browsing for the rest of the time I'm not watching movies
So I don't think I need a powerful computer at all but would like it to be a smaller size like THIS. I would also like to buy a computer off the shelf instead of building one but if it will be that much better than I'm not completely opposed to that. I just think with my requirements I could buy one but would like to see what everyone's recommendations are. I don't need anything fancy or super fast.
I just bought a new receiver (Denon AVRS500BT) and will buy some speakers off craigslist (Klipsch HD Theater Speakers) and would like to upgrade my computer now.
My wants are:
-HDMI out to maintain surround sound and audio and video quality.
-Large harddrive (1 TB or more) to store all the movies I currently have.
-Can handle audio and video needs for movies easily
-Web browsing for the rest of the time I'm not watching movies
So I don't think I need a powerful computer at all but would like it to be a smaller size like THIS. I would also like to buy a computer off the shelf instead of building one but if it will be that much better than I'm not completely opposed to that. I just think with my requirements I could buy one but would like to see what everyone's recommendations are. I don't need anything fancy or super fast.