Home entertainment built to order

Brian Finnegan turned his hobby of making home-entertainment systems into a career when he set up his own business earlier this year.

Brian Finnegan turned his hobby of making home-entertainment systems into a career when he set up his own business earlier this year. The Dublin man has created a home theatre PC called Amethyst, a high-definition system that comes in a slick box and is designed to integrate with existing audio/visual equipment.

The unit allows users to watch and store DVDs, as well as pause, rewind and record up to 200 hours of live ...