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Quote: Originally Posted by Ruffrob To IsilVest; How do you get OTA HD? Thru a tuner card?? And if so ,which one??? OTA through a rooftop antenna. Have been recording for over 3 years since OTA Digital started. I have an ATI HDTV Wonder, 2 Avermedia 180MCE and an Avermedia Bravo 780 which also has FM radio. I use BeyondTV for recording and playback. Great program, excellent interface, does commercial skip, squeezes files with virtually no...

Quote: Originally Posted by bank5 I'm thinking about buying a Dell Zino to replace my Panasonic Home Theater System. I stream a lot of movies and shows through Hulu, Netflix, etc by hooking up my MacBook Pro to my 50" Panny 720p. It would be nice if I could replace my home theater system with the Zino and stream directly from the HTPC. Does anyone have a Zino? If so, how do you like it? I'll probably get the base model with...

I think that I might like to do a similar thing. What speed/make are you using for the drives? I was thinking of using a 1TB F3 Spinpoint 7,200 rpm with 50GB partitioned for the OS and a 1.5TB 5,400 Caviar Green for recording and storing meda, thus leaving roughly 950 GB overspill on the first drive, should I need it.

Thanks ,Bickman ,I'm gonna try your suggestion,and post back soon

You really want a motherboard that has a PCI Express x16 video card slot as it has much more bandwidth needed for Blu-ray. AGP just doesn't cut it in most cases.

But finding one that is PCI and not PCIe is the issue.

Quote: Originally Posted by Ruffrob +2 As AGP is pretty outdated right now,it might be better to go with something you can use for a while. Getting a PCI-E card that will play 1080p is pretty common and can be had for about $49,and of course, higher. For example, my HTPC has a Nvidia GeForce 210 that I paid $50 for and i couldn't be happier. It has the ability to output HDMI to my 55 inch Sony,has a DVI for my HDCP monitor,and has a VGA...

Quote: Originally Posted by Loves2Watch Yes, if your laptop has a lime green audio output plug (which I'm sure it does) you get a stereo mini (1/8") cable that has standard red and white analog (RCA) plugs on the other end. Connect the plug to your computer and the red and white to your receiver. Voila you have awesome sound from your computer. Sounds easy enough, but I still have a concern. The laptop is hooked up to the TV...

Thanks for the reply Blckman. I wound up going with this one - http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthr...readid=1707277 I figure it's a pretty good deal especially with the bing cash back. The Zino is very popular as a HTPC in a another forum that I saw so I'm pretty sure it will work out well. Now, I'm looking into the best speakers to hook up to it.

That's one of the best discounts we've seen from Macy's in recent weeks.