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Building a PC for HD
by songsandstars - 4/27/07 12:55 PMHello,
I recently bought an HDTV and have it hooked up to my PC via VGA. I have been trying to watch some clips in 1080i that I have downloaded recently and all I get are skips and glitches in Windows Media Player. I can't quite identify if it is my graphics card, a lack of memory for buffering, or something else that is causeing such a lag. I am even open to the possibility of rebuilding my whole PC from scratch since I am trying to move into the whole HD realm and use my PC as a DVR also (Media Portal Media Center) with dual HD tuners and all. Should I upgrade some parts or start from scratch and build up from a new motherboard. Any ideas, opinons, or reccomnedations on this matter would be a huge help as I am in limbo about what I should really do next.
Here are the stats:
Asus A7N8X-X Motherboard, with nForce2 400 chipset
AMD Athlon Processor
1.14 GHz
1.25 GB RAM
NVidia GeFroce4 MX 440 with AGP8X Video Card
THANKS AGAIN 
Not allowed past low res.
by R. Proffitt
- 4/27/07 1:06 PM
In reply to: Building a PC for HD by songsandstars
I can't tell what you are trying to output but unless you get some HDMI on your video card the designs limit resolutions to lo-rez or SDTV to thwart piracy. I don't want to discuss this or why. You can find many articles about this.
Fix? Get HDMI connections.
Is it technically possible for VGA to do 1080i or 1080p? Absolutely. Will they allow it? No.
Bob
so then...
by songsandstars - 4/27/07 7:16 PM In reply to: Not allowed past low res. by R. Proffitt
do you think that will fix the glitches and lag though? I think it's beyond that. I can't tell if it's my graphics card or my memory that's creating the lag. The other stuff I posted about was just asking if I should bother upgrading just parts, or if I should just upgrade my whole motherboard and all of it's components. Any thoughts?
I suggest that you research HD some more
by lacsr - 4/28/07 3:49 AM In reply to: so then... by songsandstarsFor one thing, like Bob said, true HD from a PC to a TV will be very challenging because of the piracy issues. Another is the video card you have. The GeForce4 MX 440 is not a very capable video card. Before you spend any money to change what you have, do the research and ask questions at your tech store (Best Buy, Circuit City, etc). See if what you want to do is really feasible from a budget standpoint.
What glitches?
by R. Proffitt - 4/28/07 6:03 AM
In reply to: so then... by songsandstars
Remember "they" don't want you to get HD over anything but the encrypted HDMI with HDCP link. To make sure this is done the makers have to limit the display capability on sets to less than their full capability on connections less than HDMI.
This area confuses many since we all know it's technically feasible yet it doesn't work since it's programmed not to work.
Bob
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