I turned a forgotten laptop into a full media server—no money, no pain.

Have an old PC lying around that no one is using? You might want to consider converting it into a media streaming server. There was a time when people had separate devices for everything. The TV was ...

The Windows-only https://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/54301/review/portable_media_player_gmd2025u120.html is a small, self-contained, non-networkable external 2.5 ...

Want to turn your PC into a digital video recorder and media center box? For more than a decade Microsoft has made that by offering Windows Media Center. But when Windows 10 ships in the summer of ...

With new desktop software from Plex, plugging a computer into your television almost seems like a great idea. Plex HTPC, which officially launched last week, lets you access Plex’s over-the-air DVR ...

What true techie hasn’t mused about how to get rid of CDs, DVDs, and all that media clutter in favor of an all-digital entertainment center? It’s been a fantasy for years, but it’s never really ...

Once upon a time, add-on media streamers were a lot closer to PCs. The original Apple TV, launched in 2007, wasn't even a streaming device in the manner we think of ...

Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. March 4, ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) updated its lineup of Media Center PCs Friday with lower-priced models that feature Intel Corp.’s new Prescott Pentium 4 processors. The new HP Media Center m400 Photosmart PC ...

Streaming media services like Netflix and Hulu are so convenient that you can easily to forget the simple pleasures of digital ownership. Sure, it’s nice to be able to watch movies from anywhere, but ...