I think this is the right time to assemble my home theater PC. The price of computer parts continuously falling and at the same I must conserve electricity by building a non-gaming PC for my family. Well I already have an AM2 micro-ATX motherboard (with built-in video chip, NIC, and sound), a micro-ATX HTPC aluminum casing, and I’m on my way now in selecting the most energy efficient low-end processor that is capable of producing acceptable video and sound quality. I will also incorporate a modding device to control the speed of cooling fans (for noise & vibration) and to monitor the temperature of cpu, hdd, and the casing.

It’s hightime too to think about the condition of our mother earth so I’m doing my share to protect it. As mush as possible I’ll make my HTPC consumes minimal power only and last thing in the list is to buy a 19″ LCD monitor (or not..read below), a cheap external TV tuner, 4GB ram, DVD writer, and a laptop HDD. Ooops! I heard about the newest LCD projectors using low powered embedded LEDs or LED projector that can deliver a clear bright and real SVGA image. This is better than the hot and a hundred watters halogen lamp type. The power consumption of these small and light-weight LED projectors is between 15-25 watts! compare to 250+ watts LCD TVs.

So I’m thinking now between an LCD TV and a small and low power LED embedded LCD projector for my HTPC. By the way which is the best of the two in terms of response time in milliseconds (ms), the HDTV or this LED projector? more on that later. One thing for sure LEDs doesn’t need special handling, not fragile, and long life too. Now what’s playing in my mind now is the mass production of portable battery-powered wide screen HDTV projector in the succeeding years. I already saw a number of LED projector models from internet but currently I can’t find one in Futureshop or BestBuy stores here in Canada.