easylistener Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Last weekend I got my HTPC up and running. I had a birthday party for my son last night and I got to show off some of the great features. It was a real hit. I have 318 upscaling dvd player wich is one of the best upscalers, but the pc does produce a better picture. Sound is great as well. I am passing everything striaght through digitaly and letting my modded 4802R decode everything. Agian like as been stated here this is the way to go. I have mine in a closet and it is feeding my 900U projector on a 100 inch screen. I am not using a huge computer. P4 3.4ghz processor, which runs at 20% with dvd play back ATI 9600 256mb video card 1gb 3300mhz ram 1- 120gb hard drive 1- 500gb hard drive 1- 750gb hard drive Theatertek with ffdshow for dvd player. So as you can see you don't need a awsome computer to do it. It did take some time to get it all setup and running smooth but I figured it out, and I am no computer expert. If you have a chance to do it, then I say just jump in. It is well worth it. I am thinking of upgrading in a couple of months. I will change out the video card to a HDCP card. I will also put in a Blue Ray drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Last weekend I got my HTPC up and running. I had a birthday party for my son last night and I got to show off some of the great features. It was a real hit. I have 318 upscaling dvd player wich is one of the best upscalers, but the pc does produce a better picture. Sound is great as well. I am passing everything striaght through digitaly and letting my modded 4802R decode everything. Agian like as been stated here this is the way to go. I have mine in a closet and it is feeding my 900U projector on a 100 inch screen. I am not using a huge computer. P4 3.4ghz processor, which runs at 20% with dvd play back ATI 9600 256mb video card 1gb 3300mhz ram 1- 120gb hard drive 1- 500gb hard drive 1- 750gb hard drive Theatertek with ffdshow for dvd player. So as you can see you don't need a awsome computer to do it. It did take some time to get it all setup and running smooth but I figured it out, and I am no computer expert. If you have a chance to do it, then I say just jump in. It is well worth it. I am thinking of upgrading in a couple of months. I will change out the video card to a HDCP card. I will also put in a Blue Ray drive. Come on, more info needed! What soundcard and video card did you use? What case? What operating system? Did you go Windows Media Center with the Remote? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCOOTERDOG Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Yes another convert. Glad to see you have joined the ranks of the HPTC clan. Man I love mine! I found this great article on HTPC compared to a high end DVD player and the HTPC smokes them. http://www.hardware.info/articles/a...d_DVD_players/1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easylistener Posted December 11, 2006 Author Share Posted December 11, 2006 I am running a ATI 9600 for video card. I am running a new not release audio card, this card is great. I have someone that works for a company that is going to make a push into the market. I have done some A-b-a testing and if you use the digital outs it doesn't make much differnce on audio card because they are not processing it. I am now running the digital signal into my modded 4802R receiver, and it sounds great. For the case I am using a full tower because it is in a closet. This way I didn't need the quitest stuff. I am using Theatertek for dvd's and Media center for my music. I like to see the cover art for the cd's. Plus it makes it easier on the wife. It took some time to set up, but it is well worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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