[Lars Evan]

Hi,


What is a HTPC? and how can it be "Better for some" than a

Line Doubler/Scalar?


Regards,

Lars E. Jørgensen

 

[Adam Turnage]

Lars,


HTPC is short for Home Theater Personal Computer. The biggest advantage of a HTPC is you can custom design many different output resolutions to tailor specifically to your display device. For DVD playback you would be hard pressed (read:impossible) to get a better image spending the amount of money on a scaler that you would on a HTPC. It wins the bang for the buck race all day long. That said, I use my filter modified Quadscan most of the time, go figure.


Adam

 

[bkwong73]

Hello Lars,


HTPC is a home theater computer. You could put together a computer download some software. Buy a good video card like a Radeon and a good sound card like an M-audio. And have it scale your dvd's to the sweet spot of your projector and be a Dvd player all in one.


If you have more questions I would suggest spending some time at the HTPC forums.


Hope that helps, Brian