Talk:Home theater PC/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Malleus Fatuorum 23:42, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

Is it "Home Theater PC", "Home theatre PC", "Home-theater PC" or "home theatre PC"? The article calls it all of those things, but it needs to be consistent.

Who first introduced the term Home theater PC and when?

"The term "media center" also refers to specialized application software designed to run on standard personal computer." Should surely be plural?

"An HTPC and other convergence devices integrate many or all components of a home theater into a single unit co-located with a home entertainment system." Check the grammar.

"An HTPC system typically has a remote control and the software interface normally has a 10-foot user interface design ..." Run-on sentence.

"... as is commonly done with software based HTPC setups". "Software-based" is a compound noun, needs to to be hyphenated.

"Since 2007 digital media receiver software have been incorporated into consumer electronics ...". Singular subject but plural noun.

"... solid state set top boxes". "Solid-state is another compound noun.

"The increased availability of specialized devices, coupled with the availability of paid and free digital content, has reduced the need to adapt multipurpose (and more costly) personal computers." Well, you can't reduce a need for starters.

Do we really need six citations, or indeed any at all, at the end of the second paragraph?

"Since 2007 digital media receiver software has been incorporated into consumer electronics through software or hardware changes including gaming systems ...". Gaming systems and the like aren't the software or hardware changes.

"The increased availability of specialized devices, coupled with paid and free digital content, now offer alternatives to multipurpose (and more costly) personal computers." It's not the availability that offers alternatives, its the devices themselves.

History

The second paragraph begins by telling us about the Commodore Amiga and the Video Toaster, but neither of the citations at the end of the paragraph even mention it in passing.

GNU/Linux

There is only one citation in the first paragraph, a raw url to a commercial web site (Boxee). Therefore nothing that precedes it is cited. The second half of the paragraph also has the feel of an advertorial.

Second paragraph is uncited.

External links

Need to be pruned back to those that add value, not promote HTPC.

In my opinion this article is still a way from meeting the GA criteria. Many of the points raised above have not been addressed, and in places the article even reads like an advertorial for specific products. I think it would be better worked on without the time pressures of a review. Malleus Fatuorum 00:16, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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