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Reddit mentions of OEM HP MCE KIT REMOTE CONTROL/USB IR RECEIVER/EMITTER

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OEM HP MCE KIT REMOTE CONTROL/USB IR RECEIVER/EMITTER
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The remote can work with HP PC or all other brand PC running MCE, VISTA Home Premium Ultimate or Win7 Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate Has already with a USB receiver.NEWEST VERSION, latest version works for windows 7
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Found 2 comments on OEM HP MCE KIT REMOTE CONTROL/USB IR RECEIVER/EMITTER:

u/boxsterguy ยท 3 pointsr/htpc

Couple of things:

Recording TV: The Hauppauge Collossus isn't a video card. It's a video capture system. I wouldn't recommend it for your purposes. Since you're already with Comcast, stick with them and pick up a cablecard tuner like a Ceton InfiniTV or SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime. Those will allow you to tune TV channels, record them (via Windows Media Center or various other options), and you can remove commercials with various tools. I wouldn't recommend switching to DirecTV or any US satellite provider since there are no PC satellite tuners that work with them.

Remote Control: To use your Logitech 900 remote, you'll need some sort of interface for your PC (something like this). These will be IR-based, but your 900 is RF so you'll need to find the IR blasters it came with.

Components:

  • The i5 is way overpowered for what you'll be doing. You would be fine with an i3. IMHO, a build like this is better suited to AMD's APU chips based on power per dollar. That said, you won't need a separate video card with any of these, since the onboard GPUs are good enough for 1080p video (the AMD APUs have much better onboard GPUs unless you switch up to a Haswell CPU, but then that's super overkill)
  • Your RAM is wrong. You should pair it (2x4GB, not 1x8GB) and 1866 is unnecessary for an intel-based build. Go with 1600 instead. However if you do switch to an AMD build, 1866 is a good idea.
  • I really hope your RAID plans are to mirror the two 4TB drives together (4TB usable space), not striping them (non-redundant 8TB usable space -- if one drive dies, you will lose everything on them). Also, add a smaller (128GB or so) SSD for your OS and app installation. You don't want to install that on your data drives.
  • Your power supply is way over spec. You probably don't need more than 300W, though I would look for a good 450-550W PSU from a reputable manufacturer and with a modular design (helps with keeping the interior nice and tidy, since you only need a bare handful of the connections provided). Something like this, for example.
  • You say you want to rip Blu-Rays, but you don't have a BD-ROM. Gonna need to fix that.

    This is the HTPC that I just put together over the weekend (not mentioned there is the Microsoft-branded Windows Media Center IR receiver I use with my Harmony One). I already had some parts (power supply, data HDD, tuners) and went with a tower form factor case, but you should still get the idea.
u/jerkel ยท 2 pointsr/htpc

What remote are you using? I purchased an HP Media Center IR receiver (similar to: http://www.amazon.com/HP-REMOTE-CONTROL-RECEIVER-EMITTER/dp/B004PXJGXU/ref=sr_1_5?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1374425165&sr=1-5&keywords=hp+windows+media+center+remote) and it works great with my Logitech Harmony 900.