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Unless you mean consumers of set top box systems I highly doubt this will provide more "competition" for most of us. Again the main issue is for games and projects that are not just internet or media oriented. They NEED the extra X86 features so you wont suddenly see BC2 or CoD just ported...

"VentureBeat" posted this on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKc_XGuvNIk Microsoft is serious about this. And Nvidia had an impressive demo using just Tegra II If I were Intel right now I would be panicking. This could cost Intel many orders for their X86 based systems for set top boxes.

I do not think this will mean anything serious for gaming. X86 is full of power using features for a reason and you can't just expect serious game developers to give up using these features which will cause a massive drop in performance in their games. Where the danger potential (Especially for...

Sounds like a weird bug. Glad you resolved it!

No I mean streaming out to the net not to a display.

I think it is more intended for those wanting to run JustinTV like broadcasts in HD. They had been using the other one for some time now for that purpose. Why realtime tho? If you are going to do that just hook up the HDMI or DVI into the display itself.

I will purchase! What a bargain for all the input options!

Right on! They need to be told just how BS monster cables are.

Pacific Storm. Both Steam and DVD... The potential that game had was astounding but so many bugs and the team being forced to work on other projects ruined it.

100% Agreed

What about the jitter issue?

I have to agree that it is ALL about the DACs. And I HIGHLY doubt the DACs on a Blu Ray player can beat even a 150 USD receiver. Also does the player even convert the TrueHD or does it convert from the sublayer Dolby Digital 5.1?

And? Flash has changed the face of the internet for the better. Or would you rather still have the 90s where page after page looks like something from a child's book?

Vector adaptive deinterlacing which is disabled in ATI and Nvidia settings if the card is not powerful enough. And yes it counts in the cheese slices test you can easily tell the difference.

Pushing DVD quality audio is not a solution. One of the big advantages of Blu Ray and HD video was the higher bitrate sound.

I agree that TV speakers warrant RCA cables. The issue is the DAC on TVs is usually so low quality that it will downconvert to crappy rates before running them when even the RealTek DAC will convert to stereo audio atleast partly decently these days.

RCA Spdif is the same as mobo 2 pin SPDIF out (3 pin just means one is a 5V for running the diode for optical SPDIF. Optical SPDIF is as I said before just the added current to run the optical driver. So if you know the correct way you ought to easilly be able to solder.

What about Bandwidth limits? Geez hardly anyone talks about how Comcast and others count Onlive towards your limit (Comcast is 250 Gigabytes a month)

Does you 5850 not have HDMI out? If not it ought to have atleast one ATI DVI to HDMI adapter in the box you need that for HDMI audio I believe because of some weird nonstandard DVI to HDMI thing to get the audio.

That is what I was thinking. Isnt there some quick way to deploy dark fabric around just in times for running the PJ? Perhaps some hooks where you can loop a ring through fabric and quickly take it down and put it up.

Unlocking is not a viable recommendation please stop saying crap like "High Unlock Rates" Too many people consider a vastly overvolted unstable POS an "Unlock" BTW a faster Dual is STILL going to beat a quad in many games. May I suggest this...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/01/adobe-flash-player-10-2-beta-arrives-expands-hardware-accelerat/ I like this "Stage Video API" As you know while many can use Ion setups to access Flash 1080P content. It still has to make some use of the CPU meaning the other elements of the page can cause...

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-BDP-S570-Blu-ray-Disc-Player/dp/B0036WS4D4 I see about 160 at checkout. Reviews look good and 3D is a nice bonus in case you ever get a 3D TV (Get DLP For teh Win!) Thing is a blu ray player is a blu ray player they have the normal read convert display thing pretty...

Yes it is. You need the more powerful card because the good deinterlacing systems require the extra oomph of the 5670. The lower cards can only use the basic deinterlacing options which suck. The i3 or i5 is nogo due to the frame jitter issue. Too many people notice it to be just considered a...

This needs to be asked in AVSforum http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ There is some experts here but this forum mainly deals with recomindations and solutions to issues when it comes to pre HDMI out. They have a plethora of people there that likely can help you. Be sure to search first tho.

Sorry AMD chipsets currently can only do 2.0 Through HDMI audio. This is insanity in my view as otherwise AMD chipsets would be the big boys of HTPC work. You will have to budget for an ATI 5X series card low end will work for just 1080p but for 1080i and deinterlacing you want a more powerful...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001 A good Investment in my opinion. You will be surprised at what draws power for no reason. Now with computers it is a wild game for the most part. What is considered Idle? When at the desktop with no screensaver running? When...

Almost ANY mobo these days can do SPDIF. It is easy as pie to do compared to actually decoding the PCM or DD data. 7.1 LPCM is a completely different monster. It is full rate PCM data per channel not trying to stuff 5.1 channels into a 2 channel stream. The only reason I am actually not...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2952 (Only 2 Channel LPCM) CE you really need to stop that rolleyes crap btw. Found the same thing finding your post for this link when I (As many other had believed back then) That the 8x series chipsets had the promised LPCM 7.1

2 Channel HDMI only. I am pro AMD but until they get their HTPC heads out of their butts they simply fail at HTPC work. Maybe with Bobcat.

AMD would have to be dumb beyond belief to throw away HTPC capability by not having some kind of UVD onboard. The big question tho is the one asking if it will come with 7.1 LPCM. Without it you would be limited to Dolby Digital for multichannel.

Remember that Value of somthing also Includes the OS. If you want Windows to be your OS you have to consider the 100 USD or so needed for it on a custom build. I dont think this is asking too much in that regard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883108321 Edit: You also...

Just do RCA most TVs can accept that as input and optical is not going to give any benefit in that crappy speaker situation even if the TV could accept audio which many don't.

What is your sound card? There is no "Dolby Digital Live" On receivers if you see it it is just some sound processing stuff. DDL is a system that converts 5.1 of internal computer PCM data into a SPDIF Dolby Digital out that is the same to the receiver as say from a DVD. It is just done on the...

Bleh this economy needs to get out of its Funk so we can hear more tales of the good finds. Tho do remember what I said about the pro jackasses who go out and do it for scrap. I want to quote somthing from years ago for those who are not familiar with the pre recession USA. I highly highly...

Those sound more like modern tuners more designed for Digital TV duty than Analog. USB usually means lack of a proper Mpeg2 decoder chip and proper 3D comb filters.

Its not move I said buy If he already had the Ion I of course would recommend the WinTV-HVR-3300 however that is not the case he has a perfectly good PCI card and just needs the good MicroATX board to go with it. Otherwise wait and see on bobcat. We ought to know if a board will come this year...

What? First of all no they don't as I am at their site and all the Novas are PCI or USB. Second he HAS the card. So why go out and spend another £119 (Whatever that is converted to US) on a USB solution on top of the cost of a new Ion build? That's crazy!

Yes I am perfectly serious. Right now there there is little on the market that is worth the high price. Ion 1 works ok but quickly chokes once the Atom part gets saturated which is very often. Ion 2 is a joke. One board has to use a dedicated PCI express router chip (Which of course jacks up the...

Dont bother with MiniITX. In your instance you are forced to use a PCI slot and I am not finding anything cheap MiniITX wise for that. (Have to buy an Intel board for 130 then CPU so on and so forth) Mise well go for a nice MicroATX board and a slim case. If you underclock say this...