Floppyhead - Digital Media and Home Theater Computers

Computershopper.com has a brief article today on Alienware’s Hangar 18 media center. Rumors about Alienware’s latest foray into the world of media center pc’s have been circling the internet the last couple of months. From the Computershopper.com article:

A whole lot hasn’t been heard lately from the other married couple of mainstream and performance PCs—Alienware and Dell. But that’s apparently going to change in the next few months. according to two Alienware marketing execs I interviewed over the phone late last week. While they were circumspect about some of the new things they’re working on, they did provide a couple of specifics: the long-awaited Hangar 18 HD Entertainment Center home-theater PC (pictured) will launch this week, and the Area-51 m9750—the first SLI-based laptop using Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs—will be launched later this month.

This sleek looking system is going to be the first computer based on AMD’s Home Cinema reference design and is expected to have the following features:

• HDMI connector
• Up to 4 TV tuners (two analog and two HD/digital TV tuners)
• 1000-watt total capacity amplifier and subwoofer output (5 channels deliver 200 watts peak power output each)
• Slim slot loading DVD/CD/Blu-ray player/burner

No mention of digital cable tuners (DCT) have been made in conjunction with the Hangar 18. I think DCTs are almost a necessity right now for any OEM media center pc. I have my doubts whether such a slim system would be capable of have two internal DCTs.