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Archos
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: popcornhour or similar networkplayer? |
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Has anyone tried http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ this or similar player directly in to a dvi/hdmi crt card? I īm thinking of buying one of these for 1080p movies since my htpc is to old.
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Archos
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Hereīs another interesting networkplayer:
http://www.istarhd.com/
It even has a vga output.
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garyfritz
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I wouldn't trust the VGA output for serious use. Who knows what kind of crap video circuitry it has. Of course, it's probably no worse than the component out on your typical $49 Coby DVD player.
But for HDMI out, it seems like it would be dead simple to make one of these. It's basically just a computer with a specialized output chip (HDMI). They oughta be able to make them cheap without sacrificing audio/video quality. So maybe these $180-200 players might actually be decent and usable?
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ecrabb
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TV/Projector: JVC RS40, Epson 5010
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:05 am Post subject: |
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I kind of wanted to try one (still would), but even at $179-200, it's almost half the price of a PS3. If you throw a hard drive in it, you're within $100 of a PS3. Not all the same functionality obviously... But, my problem is I want too many doodads that are all $200-300. Networked media tank, Apple TV, etc... I simultaneously want all of them and none of them because no one of them is perfect and no one of them does everything I want.
I already have a PS3 and a 360. They both will network with Windows MCE or WM11, and the PS3 networks nicely with a nice OS X media server that I use. They're doing what I want for now.
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