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Following is a press release from Entertainment PC about their new high end Media PC… "Many PC manufacturers are very good at creating computers that are averagely good at a multitude of tasks but when it comes to home entertainment they seem to lose the plot. Most singularly fail to...

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[meansizzler]

Fidelity-s, which is intended for owners who already have a Sky or cable set top box, has a RGB capture card to record TV programmes.

WHich Card does it use?, and the whole 1080P upscaling/output is misleading...

[eternaldark]

Hmm no mention of HDMi output as well, not quite sure on how well it would upscale normal dvds to 1080p and then of course with blu-ray and HD-DVD round the corner is it worth buying now or wait till systems have both drives (or at least one) in the setup

[vileda]

£3K FOR A 300gb system, hohohohohohoho

[Andyuk911]

Agree with you all. I have little PC building exp , so I asked on here and a member of avs helped me - I think it all boils down to value for money with growth for new technology. I am thinking of changing my 2x 300gb to 2 x 500gb

[dan1979]

Originally Posted by eternaldark

Hmm no mention of HDMi output as well

That would be because there are no cards for sale that have the output. This is just a PC built from readily-available components put into a nice case with a very hefty price tag put on it.

How do they justify the price jumps in hard drive sizes? from 300GB to 600GB is £200 more yet a 320GB Western Digital Drive costs £90

[sbowler]

Very nice PC, just need those 6 magic lotto numbers.

[hornydragon]

doesnt this insight piricay (RIP DVD's) and hence break the forums very strict code of not discussing such matters?

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Good point Mr Dragon

[mickbarlow]

how the hell are they worth 3k!!!

oh, there not!

[Matt306]

Originally Posted by hornydragon

doesnt this insight piricay (RIP DVD's) and hence break the forums very strict code of not discussing such matters?

hmm probably not. Yes it can rip DVD's to it's HDD but I would imagine that the software would put some form of DRM on it to prevent it being copied off onto DVD-R's. Yes it's possible to get round that with other software but you can't ban a discussion of a product based on the premise that it can be hacked to do other things.

Originally Posted by hornydragon

doesnt this insight piricay (RIP DVD's) and hence break the forums very strict code of not discussing such matters?

Is copying your own DVD onto your own hard drive really piracy?

[lisag]

What a total rip off - £3k? I will build it for you, for £2950

With regard to piracy - what about this thread then?

Guide : Backing up your DVDs to hard disk

[AndrewTheMuppet]

I don't know if anyone realises this but most PC's for about the last 10 years can output 1080p !!!
This is not a new thing in the PC world.
Just checked the Res settings on my measily Radion 9200 (£45).... It goes up to 2048x1536. Thats 1536 Progressive !!

Remember whatever your display settings say, then that is what progressive signal you are outputting.

All PC's automatically deinterlace and upscale DVD to your default res.
For example, My 17" TFT is running at 1280x1024p. If I play a DVD fullscreen the 576i video on the DVD is being Deinterlaced and upscaled to 1024p.
It has to be, otherwise I wouldn't see anything.

Hope this helps

Andrew

[Pagnobito]

That does seem way too expensive, to a person that knows how much one should cost to build (about a third of that price), but the market they are aiming for will more than likely not know how much one should cost. It is clever to launch it into a AV retail outlet rather than Computer.
The case looks like one of the Silverstone range, and all the other gubbins can be bought easily. Maybe it is the customised Media centre2005 and other software that costs the money?
It doesn't say anything about being able to edit your recorded stuff to remove ad breaks.