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I second the Oppo recommendation, and I also suggest you check out avsforum.com. More info that you will ever need to know about home audio and video.

When you say surround sound, do you mean just a speaker set? Just an A/V receiver? Both? Is this for your computer or for your home theater? For $80, the best you are going to probably do is get some lower end computer speakers.

Well, having just bought a ps3 and a couple bluray titles, I am a little irked, but I am not devastated. I am not sold on either format, but I don't understand why all the negativity towards bluray other than it being backed by Sony. The bluray camp is addressing the whole menu/extras thing...

Well, I don't know who WILL win since the average consumer is pretty dumb and driven much more by cost than really anything we talk about here. Personally, I will officially be in the Bluray camp on Wednesday when my PS3 arrives. I got it for several reasons: 1) Upgrading my computer...

Seasonics all the way. The newer Trios from Antec are supposedly made by Seasonic so you might see better reliability from that line.

how much do they weigh? how long does the battery last? are batteries available to purchase? thanks.

are there any scratches on the screen? have you ever dropped it? great player. my wife has one and i am jealous.

Thanks guys. Can always depend on H crowds to help out. I am just going to go for non tracer 667mhz ram as it is under $90 with no rebates and I doubt I will ever overclock and have no windows so pretty, fast ram is pointless for me. Thanks again for the recommendations.

Hi, I have always been a value ram user since price and stability have been paramount up until this point. Now that high performance ddr2 ram has dropped below what I payed for value ram, I am considering upgrading. I have a E6300 and will be getting a Gigabyte DS3 rev 3.3 to replace my Asrock...

heh, just saved $565. of course I just spent $100 on anime. actually $140 since I went onto ebay and found all 8 discs of trigun. i would rep the OP if I could do that here.

most excellent! only negative is discs 7and 8 of Trigun are out of stock! anyone think it is worth it to get the first six discs and hope the 7th and 8th go on sale again? or should I just wait to try to get them all together some day. I have ways of watching the series, but have begun to...

I have bought and used monoprice cables for the past 3 years after using Acoustic Research and Monster Cable. Monoprice has been stellar in their quality and service. I haven't had a single issue with any cables from speaker wire to HDMI cables. I would definitely give one of their 28 or 26...

I have not personally used an Oppo, but everyone I have talked to that has raves. I use my HTPC to upscale and I get damn good picture quality. I get good enough quality that I am content to wait another year for the HD drives to get cheaper.

Currently I have about 200gbish of permant collection on harddrives, but I am about to rip another 50-60 movies to have on demand. I wanted them accessible on the network. I currently have an athlon 64 2800 (socket 754) plus mobo and ram and a cheapo case with power supply that a buddy of...

Ok, I wanted to revisit a NAS or similar device for storing all of my movies, music, etc. I am putting this post here since you all know about media storage and streaming and I really don't want to get too much into the networking or other nitty gritty of it all. Currently everything is stored...

The manual doesn't mention it. I would give Oppo a call.

If it can play back movies at a decent rate and has an upgradeable battery, it could be the perfect mobile entertainement device. I am happy to have a slightly larger form facter than the UMPC's for a fraction of the price.

Thanks guys. Seriously, it was the same type of stuff that any college kid would download. Music, games, software, etc. Anything that you could download really just to see what I could see. I just may be looking to work for the government or a government contractor which would require...

for instance if I downloaded something in college 7 years ago, could the fbi or other agency see that? i don't quite understand enough to know what is or isn't possible when big brother may or may not be looking. if i have a dynamic ip address, can my ISP keep track of which ones were used by...

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11199937 Same-ish price as the xbox drive. If you took it out of its case I wonder if less modding would be necessary for things like the eject button. The joke is probably on me and it is an identical toshiba drive inside. Anyways...

Heh, I am not l337 or [H]ard enough to find the right trackers. HDbits is supposed to be great, but they are closed to new people.

I would also like to know what engineering sample entails. Does it have normal driver support? Can it be overclocked? Fantastic price factoring in the sweet Zalman cooler.

psst.. where did you get it? most of what I have found so far has been bogus.

Have you had a chance to mount and use your drive? I MIGHT be getting a bonus next month, and something like this is at the top of my list. I would love to save myself $100 and mount this in my case, but the wiring and surgery scare me a little. I might just pay extra and run it through USB.

please check your pm's. i would like to buy your axim.

you have a private message.

My HTPC upconverts over component ;) Sorry, I don't have anything else to contribute other than seconding reading through AVS forums and that Oppo's are the way to go for sub $300 solutions.

Quote: Is it your only desktop? Not much of a gamer? Have a console? Sound card = better sound!? Looks cool? 1. No, I have a desktop and 2 laptops in addition to the HTPC 2. Desktop is good for current games, might upgrade once Unreal 2007 launches. 3. Have a Wii and I emulate...

Follow up question: If they make an AGP flavor and it decodes the way it is supposed to, this would allow older systems (say a 2.8ghz P4 with a gig of ram) run HD content smoothly, right? I would like to build a new system since I have an affliction, but this would certainly be a better...

Wiretap, like Sjetski71 implied, it will get better HTPC attention here than anywhere else. I assumed sharing info with fellow enthusiasts about htpc related news would trump whether or not it was posted in the hotdeals forum. People who play here don't necessarily play there. How would you...

http://tw.giga-byte.com/News/VGA/News_List.aspx?NewsID=1325 I swear I have actually seen that for sale somewhere, but I can't find it now. Looks hugenormous, but there you have it. Boy am I jonesing to rebuild my htpc now.

While the new reviews say they aren't groundbreakting for gaming, it looks like the 8600gt might be the new best card for HTPC use. It has even more Purevideo features than the 8800 series, plus it has lower power consumption than a 7600gt. The MSRP is supposed to be $150, which is already...

This thread from the hot deals forum has an xbox360 HDDVD drive (without enclosure) for $100 shipped. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1181027 I am SOOOOO tempted to try to mount this in my HTPC. Unfortunately, I am out of play money right now. Anyone else want to give it a try? :p

I didn't want to have the HTPC on all the time in order to serve the whole house. It is in the basement and the office and bedrooms are on the second floor. It would be a pain to run down to the basement each time I wanted to listen to music or something like that. No computer is currently...

Mpeg2 is the format used for DVD's. Divx is mpeg. This looks like something to use for coverting DV (stuff from a digital camcorder) to mpeg2. It won't help you rip commercial DVD's.

I have been toying around with building or buying a NAS device for quite sometime. Prebuilt ones range in prices and functionality, but the ones that end up looking good to me end up seeming too expensive. I could build a lowend pc and use it, but I wanted to avoid the power consumption that...

http://estore.asus.com/shop/category.asp?catid=114 Asus' own store. $10. I am sure shipping would be reasonable. Cheaper than ebay or anywhere else so far.

on ebay, I searched "asus spdif" and got some hits, but they are much more expensive than what I paid. Asus's site keeps going down when I try to search, so I can't find the exact model number. I do remember that you can get them from Asus if you call.

Trep, I bought the actual Asus branded one for something like $7 off of ebay. Hopefully, I won't have to mess with any pins since I have clumsy fingers. I want to try all this really, really badly. Should the x2 3600 use less juice than my old p4 2.8ghz northwood?

Also, do we know if this board has a spdif header so that I can use the spare spdif bracket that I had bought for the older Asus 6150-based board?