Okey, so i would like to set up something, i am from Poland and we really dont have any good shows or something, so i am getting everything from internet, oh and i dont have alot of money too so thats what i want to do,
I am going to buy samsungs 32" CRT HD TV, it comes here for something about 500$
pc:
my old 1200mhz AMD
old 256 rams
sound blaster live 5.1
but i dont know what about graphic card, i think cheapest dvi card would be enough+ dvi to hdmi cabel, please help me with that
Hard drive- it could be funny or something, but i would like to go with 2gb hard drive, just enough to install win xp + media portal. My normal PC is on 24/7 and its downloading new shows and so on, so i would simply like to connect it with HTPC thrue lan, and get everything from my hard drives(420gb). Is it going to work? lan is enough to stream this kind of data?
My biggest problem is that, i am not sure, this cpu would handle 720p xvid or divix, since my tv is HD it would be cool to be able to play back this resolutions, so if somebody knows what is minimum for this formats, please tell me.
Oh and my wirdest idea, is that i would be able to play games on my htpc, but using my normal pc, something like, you can control another pc, but can ou play games from this pc? i wouldnt need secound expensive graphic card.
I think that someone who ever downloaded some show from internet understed my and can help me,
thanks and sorry for my english
I am going to buy samsungs 32" CRT HD TV, it comes here for something about 500$
pc:
my old 1200mhz AMD
old 256 rams
sound blaster live 5.1
but i dont know what about graphic card, i think cheapest dvi card would be enough+ dvi to hdmi cabel, please help me with that
Hard drive- it could be funny or something, but i would like to go with 2gb hard drive, just enough to install win xp + media portal. My normal PC is on 24/7 and its downloading new shows and so on, so i would simply like to connect it with HTPC thrue lan, and get everything from my hard drives(420gb). Is it going to work? lan is enough to stream this kind of data?
My biggest problem is that, i am not sure, this cpu would handle 720p xvid or divix, since my tv is HD it would be cool to be able to play back this resolutions, so if somebody knows what is minimum for this formats, please tell me.
Oh and my wirdest idea, is that i would be able to play games on my htpc, but using my normal pc, something like, you can control another pc, but can ou play games from this pc? i wouldnt need secound expensive graphic card.
I think that someone who ever downloaded some show from internet understed my and can help me,
thanks and sorry for my english