Re: Maximum PC Moonlights With a HTPC Build

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September 29, 2010 at 11:42 pm #1251
autoboy

    [quote=”Mikinho”]
    [quote=”autoboy”]
    Yeah, they didn’t need the sound card[/quote]

    One one of the pre-reqs was 3D HDTV and HD Audio bitstreaming so a discrete sound card was needed since the NVIDIA 4xx series weren’t available at the time of the article.

    [quote=”autoboy”]
    The worst HTPC builds are the Atom/ION builds.  At least when these guys are done they can play Hulu.  Those guys that build ION systems can’t even play all the videos they throw at the ION systems.
    [/quote]

    We’ll have a review next month that will disagree on that.  The AtomION builds can be a great HTPC if done right assuming you aren’t a big add-inextra software user.  For a long time Flash was worthless with Ion builds but since their introduced hardware acceleration it works quite nicely.
    [/quote]

    God I hate HD bitstreaming.  I wish it would just go away.

    Why anyone would spend an extra $250 plus all the setup headaches to get bitstreaming is beyond me.  That same person would probably pair that bitstreaming setup with a small $1000 satellite speaker system thinking they got great sound out of it.  LPCM is right there absolutely free.   ::)  If you want bitstreaming over LPCM because you must have completely untouched audio then you had better have $3000 worth of speaker and $800 worth of amp or more with perfectly placed speakers and exact calibration.

    Is your Atom dual core?  That makes it better.  But does it work with Hulu?  What about with Silverlight?