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RE: We choose plasma for PQ

Posted by Gmood1 on October 12, 2009 at 17:31:33:
Picture quality is no good if you have a ghost image on the screen. lol
LOL...that's surprising. You say you've never seen an HTPC match a PS3?
Mine uses a Sony BD drive. I think you'd find it difficult to see any differences at home.
You'd be amazed at how good a ripped Blu ray looks playing off hard drive. I'm talking compressed down to 2 Gbs or even less.
Does the PS3 give you Meta data on the movie? Poster artwork,movie synopsis and a run down of the actors. As well as allowing you to pick actors out of one movie and the Media Browser pull every movie in your collection with that actor in it. Can a PS3 record over the air HD television and internet HD TV as well? Can you store your Blu ray movies with a PS3? At this very moment I have over 160 blu ray movies on HD. Another 150 plus ripped DVDs. All accessible from other locations in the apartment on the network.
I bought mine fairly complete, just adding a video card and the BD drive.
I see guys on AV audio HTPC forum building HTPC's for $300 or $400.
I was too lazy to do that . lol
Plus you can play your music library from there as well and surf the net.
I'm pretty sure a PS3 works much harder to play a Blu ray than my HTPCs do.
With the addition of DVXA (DirectX video acceleration). The media intensive programs are off loaded to the GPU. So basically the video cards memory is more utilized. From a few test I've ran, I'm using 5 to 8% CPU usage when playing my compressed blu rays. Basically cruising along.
Start time is 2 or 3 seconds when I hit play button not 60 seconds like some of the current standalone players.