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Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech, the show where I, Micah Sargent, take your tech questions and do my do god-on best to answer them.

Today, we are taking a look at a question that comes in from Andrew, who has written in with the following.

Andrew asks, would you be so kind as you always are? First of all, that's very sweet of you.

What to recommend in place of an HTP? For those who don't know, HTP stands for Home Theater PC.

Sometimes my wife and kids want to watch our old home movies, which I have ripped from my DVDs I recorded to ISO file.

I don't want to buy or build a PC, but would like some small device that connects directly to my TV or possibly my game

consoles. First and foremost, really good question. There are a lot of people who have, you know,

taken the time to make their media available to them in digital form while also maintaining sort of a physical library.

And I think that's an important way of hanging on to the stuff that we should be able to hang on to, whereas the streaming media of it all sometimes goes,

sorry, that's no longer available to you. So totally get the reason to do this.

And so when it comes to this, you know, if you're trying to do something instead of having a

full-on home theater PC, which, by the way, I mean, Andrew, I will say, the investment that you

have put into sort of having a home theater experience

in terms of these files means that A, you know what you're doing, and B, it may very well be

worth it to you in the end to kind of continue down the home theater PC route.

Assuming that you're a Windows person, given that you have not specifically mentioned your

HTTP, there are options available to you there without needing to completely rebuild

or build an entire new device.

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