Posts by opticalc

Quote: Originally Posted by IAM4UK Solution: AnyDVD-HD. I can play HD-DVD and bD. OK I took a quick look at their webpage - it looks promising. Can you just pop the bD in and just watch the movie? Or do you have to rip it first?

Quote: Originally Posted by vapore0n I may be wrong in my statement. You still need powerdvd or the sort to play HD DVDs. Vista is supposedly needed for full HDCP compatibility. See cable card. But then again, you need an OEM...

Is it possible now, or will it ever be possible to build a linux-based system with a blue-ray internal DVD player and play movies directly to a HDTV via DVI/HDMI without having to rip the DVD first? I'd be willing to buy an external...

BTW, I'm building everything completely from scratch. Are there any pros/cons?

Id like to build a PVR that will work with two HD directv/dishnetwork receivers. Are there any capture cards that take inputs in dvi/hdmi format? How about component format?

After his first day of experimenting he was saying he was able to watch HD-HBO in realtime from the DVHS selected as a source on the TV. He assumed that since that was working that it was recording. The next day I asked him to try it...

OK heres the scoop.... My boss reported that he does indeed have the HDcable box conencted to the Mitsubishi diamopnd via 5 component/audio cables. The firewire DVHS is definitely on the mitsubishi, not the HDcable box. He is...

yeah it almost sounds too good to be true...im going to have him record a HD hbo movie and bring the DVHS in to work and Ill connect it to my VLC pc and try to get it....

Ive asked my boss to test my theory, from what hes reporting back it looks like his HDTV (Mitsubishi diamond) will encode the component signal into mpeg2 and send it over firewire. He has a hd cable box connected to his tv via...

Are there any freeware windows or linux programs that let a PCs with DVD players play over a firewire port to a HDTV? Ive done a search in this forum for dvd firewire and havent come up with anything.. Id like to be able to totally...