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13-01-2007, 03:23 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London
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| Which all-encompassing DVD player? Is there a DVD player that can play most video types through my television? I would need a player that can play normal DVDs, DivX, AVI, Xvid, WMV, RealMedia, Quicktime, etc. The source would be DVD's or a USB-connected hard drive (or files from a built-in hard drive). Does such a player exist? I've currently got a cheap Nortek player that can play DVD, Xvid and DivX files but not any other types of video files. This presents a problem as I have to transcode WMV to DivX but that results in a loss of quality and lip-synch problems. HD-DVD and other HD-types would be a bonus! |
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13-01-2007, 03:43 PM
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| radix lecti  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Norwich (UEA), Essex Home :)
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 | How about building/buying a HTPC? should do all you want and more... (and sounds like a heap of fun...)  ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ. |
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14-01-2007, 01:32 PM
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| [QUOTE=dave87;968800]How about building/buying a HTPC? should do all you want and more... (and sounds like a heap of fun...)[QUOTE] I hadn't thought of that! Who makes HTPC's? I'd rather buy one if the price is right rather than build it. |
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14-01-2007, 02:51 PM
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| RealMedia and quick time will pose the biggest problem. With MCE i belive the hacking to make it play is illegal. As far as i know myth can't coupe either. media PCs are becoming more popular but imo MS are too blame for not advertising them enough, even thou there is a price insentive for most OEMs as Media Center is cheaper than XP pro. Myself i'd go for a pentium-m based jobbie as for me the media pc needs to be silent as possible. throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception) |
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