How's This For The Ultimate Living Room Emulation Machine?

[opethfan]

I wish video cards with HDMI would start becoming more common and inexpensive.
I'm running Component out on mine and it's not nearly as good as it cool be.

DVI - HDMI cables

In fact, my TV only has DVI.

I tried a DVI-HDMI cable and it didn't work.
Also, you may need a separate cable for sound if you not plugging you sound card directly into speakers as DVI is video only.
HDMI is the perfect all-in-one solution.

Oh ya. My Yamaha DVD's HDMI out works fine on our DVI input, so I dunno what the issue there is.

Basically I use SPDIF to connect the DVD to my receiver, and DVI to the TV. It doens't work with 720p50 or 1080i50, but that's not the cable, it's an NTSC TV.

On HDMI video cards, where does the sound come from?

[ravenmgs]

Funny how XBoX media center has been doing this sort of thing for years now and everyone is just now trying to catch up ;D

[ubelaffe]

funny how this got a 6 month epic bump.

[ravenmgs]

funny how this got a 6 month epic bump.

Is it that time of the month for somebody? or are they just pissy the same
post stay on the first page for more than six months on their favorite lurking spot?
Seriously, get the stick out of your ass. I think your probably the only person
here who would try and discourage forums activity. Also, I am giving a
preemptive /disagree & lolz @ with whatever future lame responses you have.

[The Apprentice]

I just plan on buying an old top loader VCR and building my htpc/emu box into it. May even take a dvdrom apart so it will become toploading.

I'm probobly wrong again, but I think dvd drives load from the front because the speed needed to run the drive would be unsafe in a top loading set-up. Maybe it was only for computer drives.

[ravenmgs]

I just plan on buying an old top loader VCR and building my htpc/emu box into it. May even take a dvdrom apart so it will become toploading.

I'm probobly wrong again, but I think dvd drives load from the front because the speed needed to run the drive would be unsafe in a top loading set-up. Maybe it was only for computer drives.

The PSTwo (slim) is a top-loading DVD player if I'm not mistaken, duno if that helps anyone

[lordofduct]

I wish video cards with HDMI would start becoming more common and inexpensive.
I'm running Component out on mine and it's not nearly as good as it cool be.

DVI - HDMI cables

In fact, my TV only has DVI.

I tried a DVI-HDMI cable and it didn't work.
Also, you may need a separate cable for sound if you not plugging you sound card directly into speakers as DVI is video only.
HDMI is the perfect all-in-one solution.

Sometimes you have to go into your video card settings and tweak them some. It usually doesn't work right out of the box because the TV only supports standard resolutions.

I know all Nvidia cards have a TV mode in their settings specifically for outputting standardized TV resolutions (including interlaced... I don't know why... heh)

It's annoying the first time you do it because you need to lug a monitor out to the TV with you and set it up, but once that is done it's fair game. Just cross your fingers that it doesn't switch back for some odd reason and you have to lug the damn monitor out again.


The sound is probably the biggest annoyance. But I have an A/V receiver, so it isn't a big issue for me. That and I stopped hooking my PC up to my TV, I have the XBOX and XBOX360 for playing emu's, music and media out in the living room now.