The PS3. Short load times, great quality video and upscaling. Just spend the extra for the remote. Only real downside is BT connectivity if you want to use a universal remote, so you would need to buy an IR adapter for the PS3.
I'd say one of the $240.00 blu-ray/hd-dvd combo read drives you can now purchase for htpcs. For $240.00 and support for both formats, how can you lose out?
Of course, you'd need a reasonably recent pc with dvi-ouput that goes to 1920x1080i resolution + a decent sound card supporting 5.1 or 7.1 ideally. Maybe a pair of nice pc speakers. I'm currently susnig the Creative Gigawatt S750s? I think tahts the name... Iknow S750 is the model number and creative is definitely the manufacturer. Anyways, they respond well for both movies or gaming when paired with an AuzenTech Prelude 7.1 which blows creative xifis out of the water.
"Of course, you'd need a reasonably recent pc with dvi-ouput that goes to 1920x1080i resolution + a decent sound card supporting 5.1 or 7.1 ideally."
You forgot to mention one important thing: that PC must be fully HDCP-compliant; not all DVI-output graphics cards that support 1920×1080 resolution support HDCP, and the same goes for those huge LCD screens. I have two GeForce 7950GT HDCP cards by EVGA, but the fact that my LCD is a Dell 2405FPW (no HDCP) still prevents me from playing my BDs via DVI.
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The PS3. Short load times, great quality video and upscaling. Just spend the extra for the remote. Only real downside is BT connectivity if you want to use a universal remote, so you would need to buy an IR adapter for the PS3.
I'd say one of the $240.00 blu-ray/hd-dvd combo read drives you can now purchase for htpcs. For $240.00 and support for both formats, how can you lose out?
Of course, you'd need a reasonably recent pc with dvi-ouput that goes to 1920x1080i resolution + a decent sound card supporting 5.1 or 7.1 ideally. Maybe a pair of nice pc speakers. I'm currently susnig the Creative Gigawatt S750s? I think tahts the name... Iknow S750 is the model number and creative is definitely the manufacturer. Anyways, they respond well for both movies or gaming when paired with an AuzenTech Prelude 7.1 which blows creative xifis out of the water.
"Of course, you'd need a reasonably recent pc with dvi-ouput that goes to 1920x1080i resolution + a decent sound card supporting 5.1 or 7.1 ideally."
You forgot to mention one important thing: that PC must be fully HDCP-compliant; not all DVI-output graphics cards that support 1920×1080 resolution support HDCP, and the same goes for those huge LCD screens. I have two GeForce 7950GT HDCP cards by EVGA, but the fact that my LCD is a Dell 2405FPW (no HDCP) still prevents me from playing my BDs via DVI.
And the ps3 can play GAMES!!!