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什么是HTPC系统（What is HTPC system） What is HTPC system? HTPC is short for Home Theater Personal Computer, which means Home Theater computers. The HTPC is a combination of computer and home theater, with a more direct understanding of the computer as the signal source and the processing part of the home theater. Ii. Characteristics of HTPC (1) flexible configuration PC can according to each persons budget and the actual needs, choose at any time the performance of various brands of various accessories, this is a disk drive, cannot be achieved by ordinary DVD player, can only be implemented when buying function, will increase and upgrade, change only the whole machine, at present, although there is a high-end modular DVD machine, can use the plug-in and software upgrade, but can only use the this brand product, and the price is very high, such as modular DVD player PMDT PROCEED (more than $4000 m), upgrade the output card, line by line is $1500, and PC open architecture, for upgrading extremely easy and reasonable price, not satisfied with any part, will be replaced at any time. (2) strong processing power The PCs CPU and graphics chips (gpus) processing power with each passing day, and the introduction of the concept of the APU (audio processing chip), PC can realize home theater system, need to multiple devices to realize functions, such as in the past need DVD player responsible for MPEG2 video decoder, AV decoder implementation surround decoding and processing, as well as the set-top box decoding of HDTV, and hard disk video recorder with D - VHS or CD save video signal etc. These are to be implemented by PC, this in terms of price and take up the space, there will be a great improvement! (3) excellent display quality Due to the current display device, in addition to the projection display three shots and televisions, other such as LCD, DLP, LCOS/D - ILA, PDP, are fixed pixel display devices, which means any input signal, with its own with the pixels to display, but o