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Alienware  
Alienware Digital Home System (DHS)
Type: Computer, Hardware, HomeTech, LeisureTech
From: Alienware
Usage: AV, DVD, General Use, Hardware, High-Def, Internet, Photo/Video, Television, Videogame, Windows PC
Alienware Digital Home System (DHS)
Free to good home: DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, VCR, AM/FM stereo, PC. You pick up. Owner moved to 21st Century.
Posted August 26, 2004
By SHAUN CONLIN, EVERGEEK MEDIA
 
Free to good home: DVD player, CD player, MP3 player, VCR, AM/FM stereo, PC. You pick up. Owner moved to 21st Century.

The Alienware Digital Home System (DHS) is actually a high performance computer, but its physical dimensions and mysteriously stark elegance are suited to a typical home stereo cabinet.

It's powered by Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 and, as such, will replace every component of your current home entertainment unit (save the television monitor, available separately) with digital all-in-wonderfulness. With an 80 - 200 GB hard drive, surround sound audio and a CD/DVD reader and burner (among other cutting edge things), the Alienware DHS is built to oblige a massive digital library, recording, converting, storing and/or burning hundreds of thousand photos, up to 5000 CDs and 235 hours of video (including home movies, television shows or what-have-you).

The DHS will also do the record/rewind/pause-live-TV TiVo thing at the click of a button or two. What's more, it does common PC tasks like surf the web, word process, play games, run slide show presentations, email, and download legitimate "on-demand" music and movies. Utilizing Microsoft's XP Media Center operating system (the leisure-friendly version of Windows XP), the DHS is interfaced with a wireless, coffee table-ready keyboard, a gyration sensitive mouse (handheld, no mousing surface required) and a remote control.

All told, it's luxury class computing and supreme home entertainment all in one--and all from the comfort of the couch.
 
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4.25 (out of 5)