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Thermaltake DH-101 Home Theatre PC Case
Software and Media Lab:
The Media Lab Kit is the heart of the system, as it offers everything that you would want in a Home Theatre PC. With the availability to complete control your computer using just a remote control, with the control of your computer at your fingertips. The Media Lab Kit was actually not designed specifically for the Thermaltake case but was integrated into it flawlessly. The Kit, made by SoundGraph initially released the iMON Ultra Bay, which places this media device into two of your front 5.25" drive bays.
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Located on the right side of the front panel are the controls that are used by the media lab kit, these controls are those like: play/pause, stop, forward, backward, volume control, etc. Located on the left side is the graphical VFD, which is capable of displaying anything from text to simple images. One feature that makes this graphical VFD so unique is that it can display in a variety of fonts as well as sizes. I was able to set it to display the time in a rather large font and am able to read it from a pretty far distance. Not only can the display show text, but it can also act as a visualizer when playing music.
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The IR remote that came included with the kit worked flawlessly. As there are some limitations of the placement of the box because of the line of sight issue of the IR remote, there wasn’t much of a difference with this IR device than any other on the market today. As it would have been nice if the remote was bluetooth, they opted not to because of price I am guessing.
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Included are two separate pieces of software. First there is the iMon, which is a monitor for the front panel itself, allowing you to change settings of various things. Second we have iMedian, which allows you to watch movies, view photos, play music, etc from a single user interface. iMedian strongly reminds me of Windows Media Center.
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