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Build a Home Theater PC from a Broken Laptop and a Tivo

Step 3Choose a housing

Choose a housing
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To hold your new HTPC, you probably want something that looks like it belongs alongside your television and audio stuff.  I was lucky enough to find a dead series 2 Tivo at the local Goodwill that fit the bill perfectly for $10. 

If you want to go the more funky route, you could get an old VHS (or if you're really lucky, Beta!) VCR and gut it for your HTPC.  I thought that an old DVD player would make a good housing also, since there's already a door for the DVD drive, something I left out because I didn't want to cut into the side of the case.
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