To upgrade your PC into a home entertainment center, you really do not need to spend too much money. First, you need to find a reasonably good digital television. This digital television should have at least one of the following video links: VGA, DVI, HDMI, S-Video.

For VGA, DVI, HDMI links, there are all good enough to make your digital TV a good monitor for your personal computer. If your computer has Microsoft Windows 2000® or Windows XP®, it should be good enough. I should also have a internet link (RJ45 connector), and some USB ports. The RJ 45 is to connect to the DSL or other network connection. The USB is used for external harddrive, external card reader and other external devices to use. S-Video is old link. The text quality is not good and is not strongly recommended by us.

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You may just connect a USB hard drive on your personal computer. Get a Studio Commander® from us. Connect your personal computer to your favorite network connection like your usually do. Turn on your computer, open an internet explorer window. Put our web-site (http://www.charisma-usa.com) as your default web-site. That's all you need to do to convert your home PC to a digital home entertainment center. Our Studio Commander hardware is pre-programmed to have Media mode which is for media player of Microsoft and PC mode which is for Microsoft Words and Powerpoint presentation tool. Without any software installation. The studio comander is trully plug-and-play. It will work under your Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows XP-MCE versions. They are all plug and play. It will also function on Linux system as we test. But for Linux's media software, it may require our Studio Input (Linux version) in order to work.

The Charisma web-site provide blog links to many free on-line radio, on-line TV links, on-line download sites. Many of them are free. Therefore, you will not have to spend a lot of efforts to get all of the information by yourself. Of course, if you found that your favorite links in not in there. You are welcome to contact us for including that web site link into a the list. You can live a wonderful digital life withoug spending a penny on the contents.

If you download our Studio Input software, our studio commander will perform much better. It will provide automatic media control switching and free remote control Input Method Editor for you. That will make your digital home much easier to use. Studio Input software provides more than 10 language input. The number of languages supported is still increasing.

You may get better audio device such as speaker to improve the audio quality but it is not essential if you don;t want to spend extra money. You may also get a digital TV tuner or other TV tuner connection through the USB ports. Some DVR software can also be purchased. Under such arrangement, your personal computer will be a entertainment center for your home. It will be a good replacement your existing analog VCR, DVD players. This should spend you only some $100 to $200. It is not a big investment.