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about 4 months ago
Bitstream DTS-MA, Dolby TrueHD success,
I just got this a few days ago, finally. The unit has a very rich look, Apple design like which is great. The performance is fantastic. Very snappy and put my Dell Zino HD to shame. The machine runs very cool and quiet, it gets only slightly warm after hours of being on and playing BD rips. It looks like an expensive BD player made by Apple. This has USB 3.0 and has SATA III which is 6 GBps which means, if you put one of those SSD from OCZ Vertex 3, the machine will scream with performance.
Also, I was able to bitstream (DTS-MA Dolby True HD) via HDMI with my blu-ray rips which is the whole reason why I bought this awesome unit in the first place. I am using ffdshow and mpc-hc to successfully bitstream high res audio. Like lots of folks out there, I never paid attention to the audio side of the HD movie watching experience. With DTS-MA or True HD audio, the sound quality increases 1000 times than the crappy AC3 or DTS core sound that I used to think was awesome.
Playing full HD 1080p ripped content like Avatar m2ts and MKVs and the video is just stunning with very low CPU usage. Haven’t played with Flash contents yet but who cares. Say goodbye to your Intel Atom boxes as non of them can bitstream.
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|about 4 months ago
Good choice for a do-everything HTPC,
I purchased this computer once it became available on Amazon and have been using it as an HTPC for about two months at the time of this writing, so I have a pretty good basis for comparison. I am intentionally trying to cover items not discussed in the reviews already posted.
The packaging was both minimal and effective. Upon opening the box, I found the computer, various cables, and the envelope with the setup guide and software. I installed extra RAM, which was easy enough to perform and the included instructions had a section dedicated to doing just that.
There was no OS included (by design), which was fine by me. I toyed with the idea of installing xbmc as an OS, but decided to go with Windows 7 due to Blu-Ray support. Since W7 did all I needed it to, dual-booting wasn’t necessary for me. Setting up Windows 7 was easy, though I needed to use the included driver disc to get HDMI output to a full 1920×1080. I am primarily using xbmc on this machine, but have WMC set up for Hulu and integration with PowerDVD. One negative of the setup is that PowerDVD came as part of a suite, the rest of which I found useless. I didn’t see an option to install *just* the software I wanted. On the plus side, PowerDVD is one of the few software packages I have ever seen that decodes and overlays closed captioning on the HDMI signal. That is a major plus for me and I commend them for selecting this software as opposed to TotalMediaTheatre or another package.
One quirk of the hardware is that all of the ports are upside-down. It is not a negative, but a curiousity nonetheless. Another is that there is only one USB port in the back. I would have preferred more back there. Currently I am using all three ports on the machine: one for an external hard drive, one for a USB DAC, and one for an IR remote. None of these devices is USB3, so I cannot comment on whether the performance is improved as advertised.
Blu-Ray playback has only hit one snag in the two months I’ve been using it and that was with the movie “28 Days Later.” There was a particular time that it could not play through. I skipped ahead about 10 seconds and playback continued fine. I did not experience the issue with a commercial Blu-Ray player, but I did not try any other software, so am unsure if PowerDVD or the system itself was responsible.
For the most part, the hardware just works. If only software HTPC solutions were as simple. I would recommend this to anyone who does not want to build their own HTPC. When you factor in the cost of your time, this is quite price-competitive for what you get, as well.
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