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Episode 184:
PCI Express Audio, $150 DX 10 Card, Component Video, Core2 Errata
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What's new in Episode 184
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• Viewer Pics: Raj shows off a server farm built almost entirely of recycled Mac desktop machine down under in Australia.
• Brian has an HDTV with no HDMI inputs. Can he send upscaled video from a DVD over his component inputs? Short version: Robert says, "no."
• Now, if your current DVD player is SD (no HDMI or progressive output via component), he suggests you use an S-Video cable and enable the processing features on the TV (most every progressive scan TV has a film-mode setting, and some provide advanced picture enhancement features that may be worth trying).
• If your current DVD player has component video output (and the TV has the input), use that connection. If it is a progressive scan player (480p), it *may* do a better job at deinterlacing the video than the TV will (***that is where the HQV DVD Benchmark Disks are really handy***). Regardless if it is 480i or 480p output, the TV will then scale the video to fill the screen.
• Upconverting DVD video to HD resolutions via component video output is not permitted with legit players (those that properly process Macrovision protection schemes). If the DVD video is *not* macrovision protected, I believe most upconverting players allow HD output of this content via component - but how many people watch "home movies" they have burned to DVD.
• Mike's 52 inch Sony rear projection LCD? Has DVI inputs, but no HDMI inputs. Can he use a HDMI to DVI adapter to connect an HDMI DVD player or a PS3 to his HDTV? Will it look worse for the conversion? Robert says, "No, the quality should be exactly the same. DVI is a subset of the HDMI spec so no actual conversion takes place." Mike, you will miss the audio signal carried over HDMI. You'll have to make use of the DVD player's SPDIF or Coax connector to a A/V receiver or use a pair of stereo RCA plugs to connect to his TV. One caveat, if you want to play HDCP protected viddy over your DVI (like an HD DVD, Blu-ray or PS3 game), you'd beetter hope you have an HDCP compatible DVI port in that TV!
• Neil's worried: 'OpenBSD' says Intel's Core 2 Duo processors, especially the E6600 are "buggy as hell." Heck, all processors have some "errata" on them, to use Intel's term. They're noted and published to inform developers. (We hope.) Just make sure to update the BIOS for your motherboard regularly: Intel uses firmware upgrades to control problems with their processors.
• What's the best $150 Direct X 10 graphics card for Todd's buddy: ATI's Radeon 2600XT or Nvidia's GeForce 8600GTS? In tests by Extreme Tech the Radeon 2600XT and the GeForce 8600GTS were so slow running available DirectX 10 patched titles that they were unplayable. You could turn off the eye candy but you end up with a DirectX 9 looking game, so why bother. Better choice would be the 8800GTS at the high end of the $200 - $300 range. The truth is until enough DirectX 10 games, which will start trickling out this fall you¹ll still be playing DirectX 9 most of the time. In that respect both the Radeon 2600XT and 8600GTS are solid performers with both being faster than the previous generation of DirectX 9 cards.
• Blackmagic Design's Intensity $250 HDMI capture board. Although the premise is good, a low cost way of capturing HD video using the HDMI connection, it has some ease of use issues.
MORE STUFF
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Posted by:
Muratcan
July 19, 2007 4:05 PM
I was out playing Cricket today, so I recorded DLTV using a trusty automatic macro thingy, which lets me record an action with the keyboard and mouse, and save it. So I set my action to pressing ok on the VLC network thingy (I left VLC open with all the URL and stuff typed in). Then I set the stuff on a schedule to start when DLTV starts and DLTV was saved for me when I got in!
Posted by:
andrew bow
July 19, 2007 7:21 PM
Magic DVD Ripper is a very easy and powerful DVD ripping software, which can convert DVD to VCD, SVCD, AVI(DivX), WMV, iPod and PSP formats or backup DVD to hard drive without any loss of quality. You can then enjoy them anytime without DVD discs or burn them to blank DVD or CD discs using burning software.
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Sky
July 19, 2007 7:56 PM
@andrew: It's technically impossible to re-encode anything and not have a loss of quality unless you use a lossless codec. DivX, WMV, and H.264 (for iPod and PSP) aren't lossless codecs.
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reddragon72
July 20, 2007 3:10 PM
you guys are doing great on the show, but let's get some benching done, lets do more with actual hardware. It seems that most of the time the show is all about HD stuff, and that in and of it's self is fine, but not most of the show. The HDMI card thing, five questions about HDTV stuff, how about some hardcore OC'n how about some really good new upcoming hardware previews. I just don't see you guys getting the light that you and this show deserves from the developers and publishers.
Posted by:
Marc
July 20, 2007 10:36 PM
Thanks guys for giving me a place to go to NOT hear about the iphone, I've stopped listening to several pod cast because I'm just sick of hearing about it.
Thanks again.
Marc
Posted by:
Doug
July 22, 2007 11:25 PM
How come program fast forward/reverse was turned off for this program for the Windows Media format?
Many times I like to watch part of the show and then later come back to it. I don't like to start over again.
Posted by:
Larry
August 5, 2007 11:12 AM
There is a way to get other HDMI video into this card that is truly useful. You just combine this device with a component to HDMI converter from Gefen. This will allow you to DVR HD video for time-shifting from and HD component source - PS3, satellite, HD-DVD, etc.
You should give this a try and report back on the card's usefuleness then! Of course, you will still need a large and fast disk array to capture prior to recompressing in something like MPEG-4.
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vetal
August 7, 2007 7:16 PM
I was out playing Cricket today, so I recorded DLTV using a trusty automatic macro thingy, which lets me record an action with the keyboard and mouse, and save it. So I set my action to pressing ok on the VLC network thingy (I left VLC open with all the URL and stuff typed in). Then I set the stuff on a schedule to start when DLTV starts and DLTV was saved for me when I got in!
How exectly?
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