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RE: HTPC - what card?



Just looking at that m/b on the Gigabyte site - doesn't mention
anything about component out  - do you convert VGA to component or does it
have component on the back plane?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phil Harris
> Sent: 07 June 2006 14:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HTPC - what card?
>
>
> > What method do you use Phil - and how good is it?
>
> I use MCE via component video out of a Gigabyte GA-K8N51PVMT-9
motherboard
> and it's good enough not to annoy me...
>
> > I'm still wondering whether to go for Myth, New MCE box (like
> > the Acer box recently posted) or a home brew MCE box - or
> > maybe just one of the many media player devices out there.
>
> ...the $64,000,000 question!
>
> > So to recap - just need to play existing video files and be
> > able to easily rip DVD's to play. Box will sit in Node0 and
> > output will be distributed by Composite (or maybe
> > VGA/component etc in future). HD playback capability would be
> > a nice bonus in the future POSSIBLY?
> >
> > Any thoughts on what I should go for?
>
> Whatever you go for there will always be something else you should
have
> gone
> for... ;-)
>
> Phil
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