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Tell me about Popcorn Hour

Yes it does, but only if your computer is good enough to handle transcoding them, which mine is not. Thanks for the tip though! As for the other responses, I had no idea of the abundance of set top boxes, and each one looks better than the rest! I was liking the WD TV for network sharing and...
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- Post #12
- Feb 1, 2010
- Forum: Audio Components
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Tell me about Popcorn Hour

Thanks! WD TV Live is getting good reviews, most anecdotal posts favor it over the O!Play. If I could find custom firmware for bittorrent it could be a winner. Generally, are these devices meant to stay on 24/7 (low power consumption, low heat buildup)? I'd like to plug my external USB drive in...
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- Post #4
- Jan 31, 2010
- Forum: Audio Components
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Tell me about Popcorn Hour

http://www.popcornhour.com So, from what I can tell, it's a dedicated box that stores and plays any media on it. Internal SATA or external USB connection. It's networked and can show as a NAS device so you can copy media files from other PC's. Right? I currently use TVserity to serve files...
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- Thread
- Jan 31, 2010
- Replies: 17
- Forum: Audio Components
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Asus ul30jt

The CES photos at http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/01/08/asus-ul30jt-hands-on-review-ces-2010/ show a GS45 chipset, which according to Intel's website isn't an Arrandale compatible one. Given the lack of solid info, I wouldn't put bets on the UL30JT shipping in less than 2 months. I only say that...
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- Post #17
- Jan 15, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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Asus ul30jt

http://zedomax.com/blog/2010/01/10/asus-ul30jt-hands-on-review-video/ says the demo model has a 5,800mAh battery, so that might give it some extra juice. Truthfully, I'm skeptical of how they can keep i7 and discrete graphics cool with good battery life in such a small system. Either way, I was...
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- Post #7
- Jan 11, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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Asus ul30jt

Wow I've been looking at a Dell XPS 13, but if this is everything it says it can be, then my purchase will be an Asus.
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- Post #5
- Jan 11, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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Media encoding laptop

Like I said earlier, it's transcoding, so I don't know how different that is from encoding. The biggest issue with my Athlon XP 3200 (2.2GHz single core) and Radeon 9800SE system is that it currently can't do real-time HD transcoding, and the buffer is only about 15min worth so I can only watch...
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- Post #9
- Jan 7, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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Media encoding laptop

Yea, I primarily do transcoding, which is more cpu than gpu. Does that mean integrated graphics chips on laptops can't play HD video well though?
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- Post #5
- Jan 7, 2010
- Forum: Laptops
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Media encoding laptop

Are there any good 14" laptops that can handle HD encoding well? I need to replace my desktop, but the only major computing I do now is serving HD video to my PS3, so I'm wondering if I can get a laptop instead. My system right now is an old AMD XP 3200+, and it chokes on HD video (among other...
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- Thread
- Jan 6, 2010
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Laptops
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Core i5 in a mini tower?

The Newegg search category I use is MicroATX Mini (their criteria go Slim -> Mini -> Mid -> Full), so I don't know if that's the real term for it. Something like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811121003 isn't quite pint sized, and looks like it will fit a MicroATX mobo, ATX PSU...
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- Post #7
- Dec 26, 2009
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Core i5 in a mini tower?

So, I need a little bit of help there, searching for cases on places like Newegg, how can I tell if a PSU or CPU cooler fits? Not really seeing any easy way... Maybe I'll just forget it and get a mid size case.
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- Post #5
- Dec 26, 2009
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Core i5 in a mini tower?

I was looking at Micro ATX boards, either ASRock P55M or ECS P55H-CM.
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- Post #3
- Dec 26, 2009
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Core i5 in a mini tower?

I haven't built a PC in awhile, and am looking to put together an i5 system mostly for video encoding and programming tasks. I don't have a dedicated home office space, and I was wondering if I can make a small and lightweight i5 system. Would a mini ATX case would have sufficient space and...
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- Thread
- Dec 25, 2009
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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New HD locks BIOS

Ok, I solved my problem. The problem lies in the SiI 3512a embedded controller, which can only recognize larger drives with a firmware update. But SiI doesn't release firmware updates for their embedded controllers, they rely on the mobo manufacturer, in this case Gigabyte has long stopped...
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- Post #5
- Nov 6, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
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New HD locks BIOS

The embedded SATA controller on the mobo has apparently released BIOS updates that other forum posters say fixed this problem. But Gigabyte hasn't released a BIOS update, and I'm not sure how to update the controller BIOS alone...
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- Post #3
- Nov 5, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building

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