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Old December 7th, 2005, 10:00 PM   #1
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Sooo... I'm in the process of ordering a LCD for my Living Room...

As I wanna put it to good use, I subscribed to the Newsgroups (trial for 3 days now) and checked out the alt.binaries.hdtv first...

Seems like my 2800+ isn't quite fit for the .ts playback job... Does anybody know what the minimum spec are for that? I thought its only big ass mpeg2... Damn...

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# 512 MB of RAM
# 128 MB video card
# 1920 x 1440 screen resolution
# 24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card
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So probably even a bit more...I have a 2600+ with a Radeon 9800Pro and I also have problems playing short HDTV bits.
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Old December 7th, 2005, 11:41 PM   #3
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Curious, isn't HDTV 1920x1080?

Oh, that's 4:3... (doesn't seem optimum to me). images/smilies/lol.gif
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Curious, isn't HDTV 1920x1080?

Oh, that's 4:3... (doesn't seem optimum to me). images/smilies/lol.gif
Guess microsoft doesn't realize people make widescreen monitors images/smilies/tongue.gif

i'd think my 1920x1200 would be better suited for HD Video than a 1920x1440 monitor images/smilies/tongue.gif

I can agree though the requirements for HD are quite high. I can't run them on my 2800+ in my media center machine either. My media center machine also satisfies all of the rest of the specs above, so the bottleneck must be the processor. I need to look into getting a new processor and motherboard to better support HD video (or figure out how to hack my xbox360, should it ever arrive, to play HD video off my computer's HD).
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If you run your desktop at the resolution of the stream, that helps a lot as it doesn't have to resize it.

And damn, I wish I had newsgroup access. I've only managed to find 3 or 4 TS torrents. images/smilies/sad.gif
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jensked: I'm not talking about HD-WMV, but good old fashioned MPEG 2 disguised as a Transport stream... This should have way less ressource hunger...

www.forteinc.com/ <-- Try that Viper, the Unlimited account has a 3 day trial... I currently doubt, I'm going to keep it...

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I don't have the money to pay for access and I bet you have to give them your credit card for the trial.
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Yes, you do...

I also can across some other provider who charges only 6 Dollars a month for 2 GB per day.... Seems to be fair, but its useless if you want HD movies...

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Oh well. I have access to a super-high speed, 0day BT tracker, so I can pretty much get all new popular items already. It's just the more odd stuff that I'd like to get off NG.
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I see... An understand... I guess I'm cancelling it, because its too expensive for me as well. I would have swalload it, if the .ts shit would play properly...

Anybody has a nice tracker for real HD material? Like 720p Xvids or something??

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I see... An understand... I guess I'm cancelling it, because its too expensive for me as well. I would have swalload it, if the .ts shit would play properly...

Anybody has a nice tracker for real HD material? Like 720p Xvids or something??

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Yeah I would be interested in that as well, since I have a couple of HD capable televisions, and would love to have some actual HD content to use on my media center.
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