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Watching 10 bit anime on flatscreen TV's ***GUIDE***
vuzedome:
(click to show/hide)Oh man you're no fun at all. :P Mainstream pickup only happened around the last 2 years, so even if it did came out much earlier, like I said, no one gave any shit about it back then.
The final draft for the first H264 was released in 2003.
Well at least the commercial hardware media players will get to see some long use before being phased out.
Well we're doing this from 2 different views so of course we have disagreements.
However my reasoning still stands, this is anime and this is 10-bit.
halfelite:
yup we can agree to disagree, if all i watched was anime, and only had one tv, I would be all over an htpc but they are just not for me or my family at this time. Like i said I always keep my options open I have a cubox on order to check what it can do, to see if down the road it can replace my hardware players. But for now im stuck re-encoding 10bit to 8 bit for myself,
costi:
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---in your case you didn't even opted to have a margin at all, since ION is border-line able to play 1080p.
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About 30% GPU load and 10% CPU load while playing a 40Mbit h264 1080p stream (google killasampla) is borderline?
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---if you've thought about it for a sec there a SNB G530+ITX mobo+GT520 would've costed you about the same with a huge margin for improvement.
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When I was buying my Revo 3610 Sandy Bridge was the talk of the future, s1156 was just becoming mainstream and nobody was even thinking about 10-bit encoding. I was considering a Core2Duo setup, but it would've been quite expensive. I almost bought a Zotac 9300ITX board, but then found a used Acer Revo 3610 with warranty for the price of the board alone and didn't think twice. ;)
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---if you're gonna argue about power consumption against this setup i've mentioned then you aren't looking at reviews carefully.
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I am, I'm even writing some of them ;) ION is still unbeatable when it comes to power consumption, so far only the Arctic MC001 (Atom D525 + Radeon 5430) comes close (34W tops when running a heavy game benchmark).
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---and if you'll argue about the noise this'll give off then you aren't looking at the market carefully, theres a whole variety of passive GT520, and the G530 can be passively cooled as well.
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Yeah, noise isn't a problem. In fact, it's easier to keep a G530 quiet than a nettop, where you're stuck with whatever the manufacturer invented (at least without nasty hackjobs).
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---well thats what i think anyway.
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As I wrote above, the situation now is kinda different. When I was buying my box it was all about 8-bit, so focusing on GPU decoding was very reasonable. And it still is, I think, if the focus isn't anime alone. Non-anime stuff is and will be 8-bit for a long time (because STBs, TVs and standalone players support it), so for someone who doesn't watch too much anime, it isn't a problem.
--- Quote from: kitamesume on April 14, 2012, 09:53:45 PM ---Edit: oh and expect the up coming new profile or format to not be supported by current and/or old hardwares, what was it again? H.625?
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By the time it becomes mainstream, I will buy new hardware and the Revo will become a seedbox (if it still works) ;) I don't expect it to be quite some time, though, a lot of money was invested into h264-compatible hardware (not only on the receiver end, H264 4:2:2 is just now appearing in broadcast encoders), so I don't expect a successor anytime soon.
Antares16M2:
--- Quote from: rostheferret on April 10, 2012, 11:58:38 AM ---Method two.
Step One: Plug your computer into your TV.
Step Two: There is no step two.
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exactly thats what i do
1212magicman:
OP why in the hell don't you just connect your TV to your computer via HDMI or DVI? I'm doing this as we speak on my 47" LED 1080P TV. So no need to convert anything.
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