Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,16.Jun.09, 07:51:15, Stackpole, Chris wrote: Unfortunately such hardware is not good enough for HD (not even 720p). I'm even struggling to get my laptop (Intel Dual Core T2330 @ 1.6 GHz and nvidia Quadro NVS 140M) to show 1080p. According to Wikipedia [1] you are supported for

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Jun.09, 13:26:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. ^ in Debian Regards, Andrei -- If

RE: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-16 Thread Stackpole, Chris
From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:andreimpope...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [OT] The perfect system ... On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:52:05PM +0100, AG wrote: If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality -

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-13 Thread Suno Ano
If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality - what might this thing of technological beauty be? imo

[OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-12 Thread AG
OK ... just for fun and 'cos it's the weekend If I was to plan to build the perfect system from scratch, using a motherboard bundle (with up to 8GB DDR RAM), top line graphics card, ditto sound card that would allow connection with an external amp to jive up the sound quality - what might