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M4tt_Envoy
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25th Feb 10 at 09:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Guys,
Im looking to build a machine which literally does nothing apart from stream Blu Ray movies and music through the TV.

What kind of processing power will i need for this?

Anyone reccommend a cheapest CPU/Motherboard setup and Graphics Card?

Looking to spend between 200-300 is this enough?

Thanks
jamied
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25th Feb 10 at 10:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

ps3?
M4tt_Envoy
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nah i want to download them, and not have to worry about copying them to a DVD etc
Reedy
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25th Feb 10 at 10:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by M4tt_Envoy
nah i want to download them, and not have to worry about copying them to a DVD etc


yeah, you can stream media to your ps3. If you have a pc on your network then you can stream the video to your ps3. If you do this I would suggest hard wired connections to your pc and ps3 as it struggles with high quality video over wireless
Liam
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25th Feb 10 at 10:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Can't you download them, and stream them through the PS3 though?

A friend of mine d/ls blu-ray/dvds and we watch them through the PS3 from his external HDD....
M4tt_Envoy
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25th Feb 10 at 10:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

but i'd still need a PC and PS3 . . .

Good fallback plan though

Would a Dual Core processor, 2 GB RAM, 512MB Graphics Card (with HDMI output) suffice?
noshua
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25th Feb 10 at 11:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Networked media tank (Popcorn Hour). Small, effecient (power) and almost silent (it is if you don't have a HD installed). Not the best for downloading though due to the slow processor.

Acer Revo should play blu-rays easily through it's ION chip though! Perfect for an all around HTPC.
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Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and an amd dual core will be fine.

mother board has onboard optical, and hdmi the graphics chip is great and more than enough to run 1080p rips, thats what its my media centre and runs a treat, you wont need a separate graphics card either, it runs quite cool as well, couple that board with a scythe ninja mini cpu cooler and its almost totally silent.

£200 - £300 will be fine does this include case and ram ect?

i would look at getting a decent case something like the entec fusion is really good for a media build.

Should stick media portal on as a front end aswell top stuff

[Edited on 25-02-2010 by ssj_kakarot]
noshua
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You mentioned downloading Blu-rays, so I'm assuming you're downloading x264 rips (4.7 - 8.5GB) rather than the whole ISO of the discs (30GB+)?

If that's the case, Acer Revo or any networked media tank will do fine. Personally I'd go for the Revo over anything else, you can combine it with XBMC. The library feature on XBMC looks amazing - you can setup automatic downloading via RSS feeds (torrent, usenet) as well.
csweatherston
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25th Feb 10 at 13:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

^^
+1 for the Acer Revo.
M4tt_Envoy
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quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and an amd dual core will be fine.

mother board has onboard optical, and hdmi the graphics chip is great and more than enough to run 1080p rips, thats what its my media centre and runs a treat, you wont need a separate graphics card either, it runs quite cool as well, couple that board with a scythe ninja mini cpu cooler and its almost totally silent.

£200 - £300 will be fine does this include case and ram ect?

i would look at getting a decent case something like the entec fusion is really good for a media build.

Should stick media portal on as a front end aswell top stuff

[Edited on 25-02-2010 by ssj_kakarot]


tried searching ebuyer for the motherboard mentioned but no luck, any links?
oceansoul
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25th Feb 10 at 14:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142347

Discontinued.
LeeM
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25th Feb 10 at 16:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

my dads got a wireless hard drive with an hdmi output. he downloads using the laptop and puts thm onto the hard drive. i imagine you could set the download file somewhere on the hdd to save moving it
ssj_kakarot
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quote:
Originally posted by M4tt_Envoy
quote:
Originally posted by ssj_kakarot
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and an amd dual core will be fine.

mother board has onboard optical, and hdmi the graphics chip is great and more than enough to run 1080p rips, thats what its my media centre and runs a treat, you wont need a separate graphics card either, it runs quite cool as well, couple that board with a scythe ninja mini cpu cooler and its almost totally silent.

£200 - £300 will be fine does this include case and ram ect?

i would look at getting a decent case something like the entec fusion is really good for a media build.

Should stick media portal on as a front end aswell top stuff

[Edited on 25-02-2010 by ssj_kakarot]


tried searching ebuyer for the motherboard mentioned but no luck, any links?


ah theres a new model that replaced that

link

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/11565920/Gigabyte-GA-MA785GM-US2H-Socket-AM2-AMD-785G-Micro-ATX-Motherboard/Product.html

good price too considering you get graphics, soundcard onboard
Rob_Quads
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25th Feb 10 at 20:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

+2 Acer Revo.

Mine plays every video I can throw it
stubs
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26th Feb 10 at 09:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Dreambox's can stream can't they?
They will also decrypt Sky for you when set up correctly
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If you want to make the most of BluRays, you want your machine to be able to output HD audio which is included with BR films, so HDMI needs to carry your audio and video. Optical/Coax can't do HD Sound.

Of course you'll need a receiver with your TV to process the HD sound, but when in rome!


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