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HTPC (Home Theater PC) for under 1K?

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hillbilly:

I just use a PS3 I know you can do more with a PC but this is the list of things that are nice on the PS3

DLNA compliant
Blu-ray/DVD Player
Supports Divx/Xvid
and it can handle 1080p

If you are wanting to play those HD MKV files look up mkv2vob it is a converter and is decently quick.

all this for like 400 bucks, oh and it plays video games and has a bluetooth remote

Brian Zellinger:

Sam, what happens when you play a video full screen?

pmc:

The requirement for dual screen and touchscreen and all that stuff knocks this contender out of the play field, but I still wanted to mention it anyway.

I recently got a Popcorn Hour A-100 NMT and this thing is really nice. $179 and it plays any video file I throw at it. Flawless streaming 1080 hidef with HDMI, component, and SPDIF outputs. Saved me the trouble of building a HTPC and it's cheap too. You can even put a hard drive in it and run Bittorent right on the appliance.  :D

-pmc

Samstag:


--- Quote from: Brian Zellinger on June 26, 2008, 09:34:41 pm ---Sam, what happens when you play a video full screen?

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Going fullscreen (any window) only fills one monitor on my setup.  There's a setting in display properties that lets you treat multiple monitors as a single virtual monitor if you want a video to wrap, but I prefer to watch on one or the other.

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