Skybird
Established Member
Hi All
Decided to stop faffing about with the PC DVI to to VGA trying to get Media Centre to display something approaching HD on the plasma - will get back to this in a couple of weeks, will try addind a spare nvidia card I have to produce an ouput to the plasma, leaving the main PC screen in its original resolution. Have to work, eat, sleep in the meantime...
So went out and got a Samsung DVDHD-850 from Bennetts who were having a sale.
WOW! Even the missus' noticed the difference between that and our old DVD player - I prefer 1080i, and I know it's upscaling, but the quality of the picture is unbelievable, and the sound through an optical lead into our sony amp is fantastic, especially DTS.
A great piece of kit. However, does anyone know if there are any new codecs to download anywhere? It will play some DivX files I have burned to a DVD+RW, but others (especially HD DivX) it says "no codec" for. Nothing on the Samsung website,it's a long shot but someone may know.
Thanks!
Off to watch something else, anything else, it all looks great!!!!
Decided to stop faffing about with the PC DVI to to VGA trying to get Media Centre to display something approaching HD on the plasma - will get back to this in a couple of weeks, will try addind a spare nvidia card I have to produce an ouput to the plasma, leaving the main PC screen in its original resolution. Have to work, eat, sleep in the meantime...
So went out and got a Samsung DVDHD-850 from Bennetts who were having a sale.
WOW! Even the missus' noticed the difference between that and our old DVD player - I prefer 1080i, and I know it's upscaling, but the quality of the picture is unbelievable, and the sound through an optical lead into our sony amp is fantastic, especially DTS.
A great piece of kit. However, does anyone know if there are any new codecs to download anywhere? It will play some DivX files I have burned to a DVD+RW, but others (especially HD DivX) it says "no codec" for. Nothing on the Samsung website,it's a long shot but someone may know.
Thanks!
Off to watch something else, anything else, it all looks great!!!!