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| View Poll Results: If you were planning to upgrade your HTPC to support HDTV, HDDVD & Blueray would you | |||
| Need to upgrade the CPU, Motherboard, Memory & Graphics Card |     | 203 | 29.00% |
| I would just need to upgrade my PCIe x16 Graphics Card |    | 160 | 22.86% |
| I would consider looking for a cost effective PCI hardware decoding solution. |    | 272 | 38.86% |
| I would consider looking for a cost effective PCIe x1 hardware decoding solution. |    | 207 | 29.57% |
| Other - please state in reply. |    | 49 | 7.00% |
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Country:  |  If I'm going to upgrade at all it will be a pcie 1x solution, since my motherboard don't have 16x and it's expensive with fast mobile cpus. It might be hard to decode h264 in 1080p with my setup, core 2 dou 1,66mhz. |
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Country: |  AVIVO vs. Purevideo for High-Definition Video Here is a link to a very interesting and related article on tomshardware.com: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/06/..._purevideo_hd/ They compare ATI/AMD AVIVO vs. Purevideo HD hardware video acceleration 
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Country:   | All an update is here - http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/h_...7.html?t=24197 Please vote if considering H/W upgrades. If you have a HD capable rig already then you need not answer. ;-) DMAN
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| x264 Im mostly intrested in something helping me decode x264 1080p files. I have a ATI Radeon 1900XT card that suports somekind of aceleration, but i cant get it to work with x264 files  Now if this suggestion would help me i would be highly intrested |
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Country: | Got some samples I can download anywhere for me to test :-) 30 second clip should do it. DMAN
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Country:  | Hi D-MAN! Have you seen this: http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=1010620? EDIT: Guess so... ref. other thread w/poll
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