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<blockquote data-quote="Frodo" data-source="post: 8700" data-attributes="member: 10277">Many people dont realize that playing video, dvd and watching TVisnt a easy job for a PC. Playing a DVD really requires a decent PC and VGA card. Besides that most htpc's i see are 1.5GHz or higherOffcourse we'll do performance tuning to get MP faster but that wont change our requirements. I think a 1.4GHz and a normal directx 8/9 VGA card isnt that high. Its currently the bottom of the pc's you can buy!And.. take a look at Windows Media center 2005! did you see its requirements? well it has higher requirements than MP does, and this is not because microsoft did some sloppy coding. They too do realize that playing dvd,video,tv etc requires a decent pcAnd keep in mind. If you're connecting mediaportal to a normal (widescreen) NTSC/PAL television then all you need is 800x600I see most ppl running 1024x768 which is ridicoulous.Why? the tv can only display 768x576 for PAL and even less for NTSCso if you're running at 1024x768 then the video chip will scale down everything to 768x576 anyway!&nbsp; The higher the resolution, the more cpu% is needed. So keep that in mindfrodo</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frodo, post: 8700, member: 10277"] Many people dont realize that playing video, dvd and watching TV isnt a easy job for a PC. Playing a DVD really requires a decent PC and VGA card. Besides that most htpc's i see are 1.5GHz or higher Offcourse we'll do performance tuning to get MP faster but that wont change our requirements. I think a 1.4GHz and a normal directx 8/9 VGA card isnt that high. Its currently the bottom of the pc's you can buy! And.. take a look at Windows Media center 2005! did you see its requirements? well it has higher requirements than MP does, and this is not because microsoft did some sloppy coding. They too do realize that playing dvd,video,tv etc requires a decent pc And keep in mind. If you're connecting mediaportal to a normal (widescreen) NTSC/PAL television then all you need is 800x600 I see most ppl running 1024x768 which is ridicoulous. Why? the tv can only display 768x576 for PAL and even less for NTSC so if you're running at 1024x768 then the video chip will scale down everything to 768x576 anyway! The higher the resolution, the more cpu% is needed. So keep that in mind frodo [/QUOTE]

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