Bellissima!

Thanks to Mavromatic (a blog I had never heard of before) for this pointer to the Teatro D1 – The Super Media Center 2005 PC.

Unbelievable! This is one sexy Windows Media Center PC. The TEATRO D1 is like any finely crafted Italian product. It sports a built-in 7″ 1280×720 VGA touchscreen, dual layer DVD burner and 500gb of HD space. You can record two shows at once (also has a FM tuner). The TEATRO D1 has integrated Wi-Fi, great for older homes where Cat5 is not easily pulled. I can’t read Italian so it’s hard to navigate the OnCinema site to find out more information… like pricing… but I expect this thing to be in the $3-5k range. The TEATRO D1 comes in silver (pictured) and black. It seems like all the really cool stuff in this space is coming from our friends in the EU. Which kind of makes sense, since Europeans have always been known for there love for quality and sexy styling… I guess we are known for $29 Target DVD players and Cheetos.

I’ve been studying Italian this year, so I was able to stumble around the Web site, understand most of the text, and determine that this baby would set you back a cool 5000 Euros, which at current exchange rates is about $6750. Mamma mia!

The good news is that you can buy a similar looking case from A-Tech Fabrication and build your own for considerably less. They’ll even install the touch screen for $400…

Thanks to James Fee at Digital Media Thoughts for the pointer.