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Aeon Stark: your media centre PC, on drugs.

If you’re the kind of person that takes his Home Entertainment seriously, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a HTPC. And if you know about HTPC’s, you probably know of XBMC and its excellent mac spinoff, Plex. Both of these free applications represent the most full-featured and flexible media centre front-ends available.

Over the last few months, the XBMC/Plex community has been awaiting in anticipation as Duncan Harris a.k.a djh, one of the community’s finest skinners, has been quietly putting the finishing touches on what looks like a truly inspired media experience: Aeon Stark. 

Stark is a massive overhaul of djh’ previous Aeon effort, a skin which, although never officially out of alpha status, is still widely use by the community. By the looks of the screens that djh has made available so far, Stark also looks to be one of the most functional interfaces available on any HTPC platform.

After much speculation about when Stark might finally be released, a post by djh on the XBMC forums a few days ago finally provided the XBMC community with an answer: 30/03/09. Just enough time to build that HTPC you’d been thinking about.

Make sure to head on over to the beautiful Aeon Project site for all the details. you can also find an in-depth interview with Aeon’s creator, djh, here.