Hi
Is anyone on the forum using a media PC .
I was considering replcing my DVD recorder and video with a media PC and storing all my DVDs on the Hard drive.

I have an AV amp so as long as I had a digital output I would pass all sound through that. I will use a plasma as the screen so all I need is the box.

If any one is using one, are there any recommendations.

Cheers

Make your own! Using an ITX mobo and build it into what you want. I have one in a cigar humidor - but I'm thinking of puuting it in an old dvd recorder chassis. See the background pic on my site:

www.tibit.co.uk

i bought a microwave from tesco once and built a pc in it for a laugh and sold it in the shop.

I'm running a Vista based media PC BUT I also run a seperate DVD recorder. The DVD player upscales the image to take advantage of the 1080P 40" hidef TV . from what I have seen you will not get the same performance form any media PC. and they cost less than £100! bargain!

As for storing all your DVDs -just remeber you wioll need a HUGE amount of disk space. If you want to rip them without compressing and loosing quality then you are looking at around 800Mb per DVD.

I built my machine myself and avoided all these nancy little boards.. I used a proper ATX board in a good quality 'quiet' case using an AMD fx57 64bit processor and 4Gb Ram. this gives me as much adaptability as I want and easily houses my 2 TV tuner card and my high quality sound card. with room for expansion. I am running Vista 64 Ultimate.

Incidentally I also use this machine as my living room PC but have found that, for some starnge reason, the max resolution the telly will display FROM A 'pc' input (15PIN VGA) is much lower than the max resolution for HD input.

still looks bloody good though

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Originally posted by DaveFJ
If you want to rip them without compressing and loosing quality then you are looking at around 800Mb per DVD.

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Originally posted by matt_claydon

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Originally posted by DaveFJ
If you want to rip them without compressing and loosing quality then you are looking at around 800Mb per DVD.

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Might need to add a zero to that! Dual-layer DVD is 8.5GB if I remember correctly.

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Isn't it more like 8704mb. Pretty sure it's 1024mb or there abouts to a gb.

picky picky picky...

the point is you will need an enormous amount of disk space!