Hi,
Building my H(T|C)PC is a few months off but doing some initial investigation.
I'll need it to take the signal from my Sky+ and X-Box so that dscaler can do it's magic and output to my Panny 5 series 42" (would a straight VGA cable suffice and give the best quality?). I have no need for video capture as such as my Sky+ box does all I need in that dept. So my question is what sort of card/cards do I need to take those 2 sources, obviously no DVD as I'll be using the inbuilt DVD player. It might also be useful if it had a secondary output I could connect to my VCR for those rare occasions I need to record something for a friend.
Gonna have a quick look into Audio card reqs but would I be correct in assuming that you get raw data from the SPDIF (sp?) so any audio card will do I hear a lot of talk about the Revo? Oh and I assume if using the SPDIF then that will work with 7.1, ES,EX etc. audio?
Thanks in advance
Si
Building my H(T|C)PC is a few months off but doing some initial investigation.
I'll need it to take the signal from my Sky+ and X-Box so that dscaler can do it's magic and output to my Panny 5 series 42" (would a straight VGA cable suffice and give the best quality?). I have no need for video capture as such as my Sky+ box does all I need in that dept. So my question is what sort of card/cards do I need to take those 2 sources, obviously no DVD as I'll be using the inbuilt DVD player. It might also be useful if it had a secondary output I could connect to my VCR for those rare occasions I need to record something for a friend.
Gonna have a quick look into Audio card reqs but would I be correct in assuming that you get raw data from the SPDIF (sp?) so any audio card will do I hear a lot of talk about the Revo? Oh and I assume if using the SPDIF then that will work with 7.1, ES,EX etc. audio?
Thanks in advance
Si