Recent content by natermeister

What's the bitrate on lossless multi-channel? 8Mbps? I realize DTS-MA supports something like 24Mbps, but I really don't think they're using bitrates that high for the majority of movies. I haven't checked, but I'd guess about 2-3Mbps for every two channels or so. Probably a pretty good guess...

Never really thought about it, because why would anyone convert DTS-MA or TrueHD into 5.1 FLAC if they couldn't play it? I'd guess that Media Player Classic and VLC can probably do it. The other option, you could probably just output to straight LPCM instead of saving a little space with FLAC...

What about using eac3to to convert the TrueHD or DTS-MA audio into FLAC files? Then you can use them in a MKV. That's what I'm looking at doing for both my HD-DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. There is a good post on AVS about doing just this.

Oh come on, someone should be able to offer something on this...

I have a single HP LP2475w, since they apparently don't make the monitor anymore that makes getting a second one to go with it rather difficult. The Dell U2420 seems to be a very similar display, so I'm wonder how much difference there would be between the two? Does anyone know if they have...

I'm needing a backup motherboard and CPU. I'd like a P35 or P45 motherboard from a major vendor (ASUS, DFI, Gigabyte, MSI are fine) and a solid intel Core 2 Duo. An original Conroe or Wolfdale would be what I'm looking for. Thanks, -Nate

Rumor, but pretty likely. I doubt Global Foundries would be building so much 32/28nm bulk CMOS capacity unless they were expecting a GPU manufacturer to be a customer, chipsets can only account for so much capacity. That leaves AMD and nVidia. I don't think I need to say which is more likely...

It's impossible to be sure, ie an OEM drive getting dropped upon removal from their 20-drive pack, but it's still nice to see a drive packed well. I know that hard drives are supposed to be able to take some really nasty g-loading when they're turned off and the read/write heads are...

Bump. Have one, would still like another.

We really need a sticky with a list of those etailers that pack their hard drives well and those that don't. It would really make purchasing hard drives online a lot easier. I usually don't buy hard drives from Newegg because they don't pack them right, but I just picked up a WD15EADS from...

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