Upgrade to support HDTV, HDDVD & Blu-Ray (1 Viewer)

If you were planning to upgrade your HTPC to support HDTV, HDDVD & Blueray would you

  • Need to upgrade the CPU, Motherboard, Memory & Graphics Card

    Votes: 218 29.9%
  • I would just need to upgrade my PCIe x16 Graphics Card

    Votes: 167 22.9%
  • I would consider looking for a cost effective PCI hardware decoding solution.

    Votes: 276 37.9%
  • I would consider looking for a cost effective PCIe x1 hardware decoding solution.

    Votes: 213 29.2%
  • Other - please state in reply.

    Votes: 51 7.0%

  • Total voters
    729

Salle

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December 7, 2006
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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.
 

D.K

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December 25, 2006
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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 :confused:

Now if this suggestion would help me i would be highly intrested :)
 

dman_lfc

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  • July 28, 2004
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    Got some samples I can download anywhere for me to test :)
    30 second clip should do it.

    DMAN
     

    pannivas

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    July 26, 2006
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    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 :confused:

    Now if this suggestion would help me i would be highly intrested :)

    best current solution for decoding x264 is Fast CPU if you are using ffdshow decoder. or a medium dual core if you are using CoreAVC decoder.
     

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