Kyle,
THanks for the enlightening post-review. Interesting that you are seeing only VC1 encoded HA, as this is the one BD format that I find Intel IGP cores (G35 and G45) have the most difficulty with (stuttering, cpu offload, etc.) with my Asus boards. I am curious if you have tried this on the older PowerDVD 7.3 software, because for most HTPC folks spending another $100 to upgrade to PDVD8 isn't worth it (a discrete GPU would be a better value and have instant backwards compatibilty). Thanks again and looking forward to any further follow-ups to it!
THanks for the enlightening post-review. Interesting that you are seeing only VC1 encoded HA, as this is the one BD format that I find Intel IGP cores (G35 and G45) have the most difficulty with (stuttering, cpu offload, etc.) with my Asus boards. I am curious if you have tried this on the older PowerDVD 7.3 software, because for most HTPC folks spending another $100 to upgrade to PDVD8 isn't worth it (a discrete GPU would be a better value and have instant backwards compatibilty). Thanks again and looking forward to any further follow-ups to it!