htpc inside a projector

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A complete mini-ITX system, provided you use slimline drives, will fit in a shoebox size. They have built-in everything, and one PCI slot. You just need to add ram, hard drive, and optical drive. And like I said, if you use a slimline laptop drive, you can make an amazingly compact little system. The mini-itx boards are really geared for video playback, with built-in mpeg2 decoders and 5.1 surround. A 1ghz board is in the $200 price range.
 
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A complete mini-ITX system, provided you use slimline drives, will fit in a shoebox size. They have built-in everything, and one PCI slot. You just need to add ram, hard drive, and optical drive. And like I said, if you use a slimline laptop drive, you can make an amazingly compact little system. The mini-itx boards are really geared for video playback, with built-in mpeg2 decoders and 5.1 surround. A 1ghz board is in the $200 price range.


How would one go about connecting a slimline laptop drive to a desktop PC? Laptop drives use smaller interfaces. I know how to convert a laptop hard drive to a standard 40pin IDE, but how would I convert a laptop DVD drive to IDE?

(I decided out of nowhere to gut an old DVD player and put a computer in it... the DVD-ROM drive that I took apart is still too big to fit well.)

Thanks...
 
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