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<blockquote data-quote="RedeviL" data-source="post: 270578" data-attributes="member: 55318">Ahh, that does put a damper on things!Yeah, it seems the best option would be wait for a big upgrade.As mcraenz said, recording is nothing - it's the playing of that data which thrashes the processing power of the machine.The CPU I have handles 720p MKV's reasonably happily - is smooth with no apparent frame drops.But I ultimately don't want it playing on the CPU - I purchased the 8500GT which has native hardware H.264 decoding. But media with H.264 video still doesn't play via the Video card properly yet.My machine is only a week old, so I'm still tweaking and perfecting.As for Blu-ray playback, I am yet to hire/buy any discs to try it.But it should decode the video on the video card without issue.I'm still waiting on my S/PDIF adapter for my Shuttle case to arrive before I go down that route though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RedeviL, post: 270578, member: 55318"] Ahh, that does put a damper on things! Yeah, it seems the best option would be wait for a big upgrade. As mcraenz said, recording is nothing - it's the playing of that data which thrashes the processing power of the machine. The CPU I have handles 720p MKV's reasonably happily - is smooth with no apparent frame drops. But I ultimately don't want it playing on the CPU - I purchased the 8500GT which has native hardware H.264 decoding. But media with H.264 video still doesn't play via the Video card properly yet. My machine is only a week old, so I'm still tweaking and perfecting. As for Blu-ray playback, I am yet to hire/buy any discs to try it. But it should decode the video on the video card without issue. I'm still waiting on my S/PDIF adapter for my Shuttle case to arrive before I go down that route though. [/QUOTE]

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