Friday, May 4, 2007
Is The World Ready For DIY HDMI PCs? Are We?
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 AM
"The impetus for this story was to explore the workability of building one's own HDMI-and hi-definition DVD player equipped PC. While we were ultimately successful in our quest for this goal - and wow, is this landscape changing daily as new HDMI-equipped graphics cards and motherboards hit the marketplace - we learned numerous interesting things along the way as we groped toward both Intel and AMD implementations for a mid- to high-end media-capable system."
HDMI is aaaalmost there in the PC world. There's still a few shortcomings, like finding an appropriate HDMI equipped display, HDCP compatibility, setting up the hardware and software so they play nice with each other...not to mention the cost. If you want HDMI out on a PC, and HD optical drives, it'll cost ya. Alot. The next generation home theater PC isn't there just quite yet.
HDMI is aaaalmost there in the PC world. There's still a few shortcomings, like finding an appropriate HDMI equipped display, HDCP compatibility, setting up the hardware and software so they play nice with each other...not to mention the cost. If you want HDMI out on a PC, and HD optical drives, it'll cost ya. Alot. The next generation home theater PC isn't there just quite yet.
