LOGiC
28th November 2013, 22:00
Hey guys,
haven't been around for a long time and would like to ask something!
As summer is over I am starting to watch more movies again, mounted my old HC7000 and started working with the wireless-HDMI zyxel WHD6215, which works like a charm.
Recently I started watching mkv's again. As I like good quality, I am more and more into remuxes with DTS-HD Audio. First I played mkv with my Asus O'Play, but I think it's got HDMI 1.3 and does not seem to properly playback DTS-HD. My Sony bluray BDP-S490 which worked well for quite a long time doesn't seem to handle DTS-HD in mkv, it freezes after 1-2 minutes and totally crashes all the time. As I am thinking of getting a 3D tv or projector next year, I would like to have a good stand alone media player as well and thats why I am asking you guys. I've investigated throughout loads of players last days, but negative comments on these machines always prevail the positive ones.
Had a look at the Dune base 3D, the mede8er, xtreamer, egreat, PCH and other machines. I am not sure if there is anything true about it, but I personally feel better about Sigma than Realtek. I don't have much .iso files, but I absolutely want to watch MKV with DTS-HD without any dropouts. I hear the support for firmware isn't that good anymore for dune and PCH.
On the other hand, I am totally interested in stuff as the ASRock machines, the Zotac ZBoxes or NUC with the haswell based things. Amongst the three Intel, Radeon and NVidia, what would you recommend ? Which of them would be able to handle 3D as well, if one is absolutely not interested in playing any games on the machine ?
I learned that the mobility graphic cards have horrible benchmark results, but does that matter when it's just used for watching movies ? Are there any quality differences between a media player as the dune/PCH and a HTPC ?
I apologize for asking all these probably stupid questions, but you're the only guys I can reliably ask.
Thanks in advance and the US guys have a great thanksgiving today!
haven't been around for a long time and would like to ask something!
As summer is over I am starting to watch more movies again, mounted my old HC7000 and started working with the wireless-HDMI zyxel WHD6215, which works like a charm.
Recently I started watching mkv's again. As I like good quality, I am more and more into remuxes with DTS-HD Audio. First I played mkv with my Asus O'Play, but I think it's got HDMI 1.3 and does not seem to properly playback DTS-HD. My Sony bluray BDP-S490 which worked well for quite a long time doesn't seem to handle DTS-HD in mkv, it freezes after 1-2 minutes and totally crashes all the time. As I am thinking of getting a 3D tv or projector next year, I would like to have a good stand alone media player as well and thats why I am asking you guys. I've investigated throughout loads of players last days, but negative comments on these machines always prevail the positive ones.
Had a look at the Dune base 3D, the mede8er, xtreamer, egreat, PCH and other machines. I am not sure if there is anything true about it, but I personally feel better about Sigma than Realtek. I don't have much .iso files, but I absolutely want to watch MKV with DTS-HD without any dropouts. I hear the support for firmware isn't that good anymore for dune and PCH.
On the other hand, I am totally interested in stuff as the ASRock machines, the Zotac ZBoxes or NUC with the haswell based things. Amongst the three Intel, Radeon and NVidia, what would you recommend ? Which of them would be able to handle 3D as well, if one is absolutely not interested in playing any games on the machine ?
I learned that the mobility graphic cards have horrible benchmark results, but does that matter when it's just used for watching movies ? Are there any quality differences between a media player as the dune/PCH and a HTPC ?
I apologize for asking all these probably stupid questions, but you're the only guys I can reliably ask.
Thanks in advance and the US guys have a great thanksgiving today!