save your money and build your own sff htpc w/ a blu-ray drive & decent graphic card for less than $800. and yeah, you can use it for other purposes such as writing presentations, playing games, ... computing.
Blue ray burner, Hdcp Video Card, 1Tb Storage, Digital HD tuner (cablecard? does this have cable card?) enough proc and memory to play blue ray movie while recording something at 720p, Windows Vista Home Premium/Ultimate (for HDCP support, and media centre) for under $2000 ? Let alone under 800?? please where ?!!
Not to mention almost instant-on recordings.
Dont get me wrong, i have built an HTPC for me, when my XBMC was not up to playing back HD content and i Love it.
Seriously, price is high, but not ridiculous high.
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allston232 @ Sep 26th 2007 4:44AM
save your money and build your own sff htpc w/ a blu-ray drive & decent graphic card for less than $800. and yeah, you can use it for other purposes such as writing presentations, playing games, ... computing.
Tensor @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:34PM
Also applies for ztiger93:
Blue ray burner, Hdcp Video Card, 1Tb Storage, Digital HD tuner (cablecard? does this have cable card?) enough proc and memory to play blue ray movie while recording something at 720p, Windows Vista Home Premium/Ultimate (for HDCP support, and media centre) for under $2000 ?
Let alone under 800?? please where ?!!
Not to mention almost instant-on recordings.
Dont get me wrong, i have built an HTPC for me, when my XBMC was not up to playing back HD content and i Love it.
Seriously, price is high, but not ridiculous high.