Assuming that your video card from you computer has the right outputs it will not be that hard to add an HDTV as you computer monitor being a almost simple process. You want to integrate your computer into the home theater experience that you have managed to construct in your room this being a good case of an addition to the media center applications by only connecting the right components to your PC. Make sure that your video card from the computer has a DVI connector and you need to connect it to the monitor. In most HDTV's you shall find DVI connectors but if you don't have one, for the existing video card you can get a VGA converter but you would not get the same video quality if you just spend some more bucks on a DVO support.

The screen resolution will be limited thus it shall have the maximum HDTV resolution, being typically 1920 x 1080. The only needed step to have you HDTV as your computer monitor was the previous one. Neither of the options on the market will support the HDTV over satellite or cable although there are many TV tuner cards with standard definition digital cable support. But do not worry because computer manufacturers are already started to created prototypes for these kinds of devices and very soon we shall have that introduced into our homes. TV stations are limited via HDTV tuner cards at the moment to the air stations which are various by location but until now the HDTV has the best reviews in the process of passing the signal through the cable and bypassing it into the computer.



But most of what is on television now a day is mostly standard definition television. You can use a SageTV, Windows Media Center Edition or BeyondTV if you add a tuner card this maximizing your possibility to use a digital video recording solution. There is a list on the internet about hardware and you should start with it, Designed for Media Center Edition, if you want to see what is compatible with DVR software applications. The most likely scenario when you add a TV tuner card is that you get the cable connection from wall to the digital cable box and the form that to the computer and from the PC to the television. If you want to change the channels you just need a small IR broadcaster over the top of the IR port and all of this over the cable box for getting the direct request of channel changing from the computer to the cable box.



If you already invested into a HDTV you should invest also into a remote that will control all the controls the PC but keep in mind that this goes hand in hand with the DVR application that you will use. A number of options will be provided to you by adding a computer audio output to the home theater system, this will you can play through the speakers which for sure will be better, in most cases, then the ones that you will have on your computer on top on the excellent video quality that it is provided.

If you want to support the 5.1 surround playback on you computer you just have to get a new sound card for your PC this making all the changes, adding the HDTV as a computer monitor, an wonderful experience at a maximum video and audio level. The internet connections does not change in its options or the way it existed before in your house, being connected by cable and port to you computer or through wireless connection. Good luck and have fun!