Newbie Help PLEASE..

yeah keep the x800 xl thats a great card
http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2550138

that will give component output to your projector

a pvr 150 is good for standard definition TV

and the Fusion Gold III is great for HDTV in MCE 2005 and the MYHD 130 or AccessDTV are great if not planning to use MCE

the ALL in wonder is a horrible option just so you know

the HDTV cards are for OTA HDTV and unencrypted cable HDTV (except the AccessDTV which is Over the Air only)

and buy quiet fans
http://www.pcalchemy.com/index.php/cPath/43
http://www.digitalconnection.com/
http://www.htpcnews.com/forums/index.php
http://theatertek.com/index.html


here are some basic links that may help get you started

First off welcome to the what is soon going to be a huge addcition


Second what you are going to want to do just as kny3twalker pointed out is get the ATI DVI to component dongle, this will allow you to hook up your Computer to your X1 projector.


What I then recomend is reading up or searching this forum on all possible resolutions of the X1, what you want to do is setup the computer to display the native resolution of that project (which I think might be 800 x 600 which is not a wide screen rez)


Then once you've got that set to the correct native rez you will then spend time getting the PC hooked up to your reciver, if you already dont have spdif ouputs on that computer and if your reciver supports toslink(optical) spdif then a Chaintech 710 sound card will be a nice addition to the setup.


so now that we've got Video and Aduio setup, next is software.


Currently the cream of the crop in terms of PQ (thats in MHO) is getting TT2.1 which comes with the latest Nvidia codecs and then added in FFDshow for some major eye candy


read up here on how to setup FFDshow with Theatertek:
http://htpcnews.com/main.php?id=ffdshowdvd_1


once you've mastered those three things your on your way to a world of addiction, enjoyment, and a reason to get away from the signifcant other


-Josh