Spidermac
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Looking for the good community to point me in the right direction. Finally have some cash to splash out on a media player or HTPC build with my preference being Mediaportal as I have tinkered with it in the past. Having two young kids and limited time has me thinking that maybe I should err on the side of a Popcorn Hour C-200 or Tvix Xroid A1 or M6600N Plus (blasphemy I hear you cry to the HTPC world!)
My prerequisites are:
1. Awesome picture quality of HD material in the common formats of MKV, ISO, etc.
2. Nice slick interface showing cover art, synopsis for films.
3. Audio passthrough of TrueHD and DTS MA for future Onkyo amp purchase.
4. 24p playback of material.
The main question is, can a well configured HTPC with Mediaportal as the frontend compete or surpass the picture and sound quality of one of these off the shelf hardware solutions mentioned above?
Cheers folks!
My prerequisites are:
1. Awesome picture quality of HD material in the common formats of MKV, ISO, etc.
2. Nice slick interface showing cover art, synopsis for films.
3. Audio passthrough of TrueHD and DTS MA for future Onkyo amp purchase.
4. 24p playback of material.
The main question is, can a well configured HTPC with Mediaportal as the frontend compete or surpass the picture and sound quality of one of these off the shelf hardware solutions mentioned above?
Cheers folks!