I would go look at page 85 of the Guide to Building a HD HTPC in avsforum.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...940972&page=85
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...940972&page=85
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Need video & audio card recommendations
I have run the Blu-Disk advisor and it says I need to upgrade my video card (and driver), and display (considering 46" Toshiba).
I've been reading the posts (hours on end) in this forum and most of the stuff is over my head. I'm an electronics tech and photographer by trade (40yrs.), but this stuff is out of my league.
My system needs to play video (client slide shows and movies) only, NO games. I have the LG GGW-H20N HD player/Blu-Ray burner already installed. I would like to have 5.1 audio also. I am not looking for the cheapest solution. I just want it to work as advertised without a lot of hacking or breaking the bank.
Thanks,
Don Nealious
I've been reading the posts (hours on end) in this forum and most of the stuff is over my head. I'm an electronics tech and photographer by trade (40yrs.), but this stuff is out of my league.
My system needs to play video (client slide shows and movies) only, NO games. I have the LG GGW-H20N HD player/Blu-Ray burner already installed. I would like to have 5.1 audio also. I am not looking for the cheapest solution. I just want it to work as advertised without a lot of hacking or breaking the bank.
Thanks,
Don Nealious
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Or if you just want a simple answer to your question, get an ATI 4670HD and the Toshiba TV you are looking at. Blueray, HD DVD and DVD will not give you any trouble then.
Yes, that is what I have but I was giving the option of looking into this in more detail.
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Originally Posted by Warren_G /forum/post/15401354
Or if you just want a simple answer to your question, get an ATI 4670HD and the Toshiba TV you are looking at. Blueray, HD DVD and DVD will not give you any trouble then.
Yes, that is what I have but I was giving the option of looking into this in more detail.
My year-old Dell XPS420 (32-Bit Vista) has a BluRay drive stock installed. It has this along with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (that apparently has no connector for an SPDIF cable to run from my non-stock Audigy 2ZS card I installed from my old box). I was trying to find a way, for under $200.00 (or so), to purchase a new video card so I can run a single HDMI cable to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver. I was considering buying AN HD 4850.
If I purchase this card, and run a single HDMI cable from it in my Dell XPS420 to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver's HDMI input, will I get full BluRay resolution and full 5.1 Dolby surround from my PC?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Warren_G /forum/post/15401354
Or if you just want a simple answer to your question, get an ATI 4670HD and the Toshiba TV you are looking at. Blueray, HD DVD and DVD will not give you any trouble then.
My year-old Dell XPS420 (32-Bit Vista) has a BluRay drive stock installed. It has this along with a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (that apparently has no connector for an SPDIF cable to run from my non-stock Audigy 2ZS card I installed from my old box). I was trying to find a way, for under $200.00 (or so), to purchase a new video card so I can run a single HDMI cable to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver. I was considering buying AN HD 4850.
If I purchase this card, and run a single HDMI cable from it in my Dell XPS420 to my ONKYO HT-R640 receiver's HDMI input, will I get full BluRay resolution and full 5.1 Dolby surround from my PC?
I cant honestly say that you will have 5.1 audio this way as I dont use hdmi for audio on mine. According to other users, if you use PDVD 8 ultra, you should. I just cant tell you that is what mine does. What I can tell you is that Blueray playback at 1080p over HDMI or DVI looks fantastic and doesnt stutter or have any problems in the least.
On Sunday evening I went and ordered a VisionTek Radeon 4850. I got it yesterday and installed it last night. We ran the new Blu-Ray Batman movie through it to test it. Right now I still have the cheapy LCD that came with my HP Pav 6130.
It looked pretty good. The fan is pretty quit now, but I want to adjust it before I close up the box, since I've been reading complaints that the 4850 runs hot. I found a You Tube video to show me how. That is what I'm doing after this post.
Previous I was not able to run my Coloreyes monitor calibration software (with my Xrite puck) without getting an error. Just for fun I ran it after installing the 4850 and it works now. I just have to adjust the brightness to match my prints.
Can I use the same process to calibrate a 46" Toshiba? It is one thing to have Photoshop use a monitor profile, but what about movies running through your multimedia software?
Once prices continue to drop, I'll probably put a Blu-ray drive in my PC so I can author client disks directly on it. Right now I have to do all the color correcting and density on my pc move the image file to my wifes pc (with the BR drive) or the network, and then burn it the BR disk from there.
Thanks for the suggestions and video card insights.
Don Nealious
It looked pretty good. The fan is pretty quit now, but I want to adjust it before I close up the box, since I've been reading complaints that the 4850 runs hot. I found a You Tube video to show me how. That is what I'm doing after this post.
Previous I was not able to run my Coloreyes monitor calibration software (with my Xrite puck) without getting an error. Just for fun I ran it after installing the 4850 and it works now. I just have to adjust the brightness to match my prints.
Can I use the same process to calibrate a 46" Toshiba? It is one thing to have Photoshop use a monitor profile, but what about movies running through your multimedia software?
Once prices continue to drop, I'll probably put a Blu-ray drive in my PC so I can author client disks directly on it. Right now I have to do all the color correcting and density on my pc move the image file to my wifes pc (with the BR drive) or the network, and then burn it the BR disk from there.
Thanks for the suggestions and video card insights.
Don Nealious
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