High Definition, watching on my computer?

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TheJackyl

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Hey, I got a few questions concerning high definition.. if anyone could answer them id appreciate it..

I own a 24" dell lcd monitor for my computer which I think is capable of showing HD footage. What else is needed? Currently I use a DVI connection to a 7800gt video card, is that adaquate to send an HD signal to my monitor? Do I have to do anything special to the monitor? I went to the website for the monitor and I cant find any information specific to what type of HD footage it can display, 720p.1080i, 1080p? Can anyone who knows please inform me?

Lastly is there a place to buy HD movies on your computer instead of buying the DVDR to watch them? Does anyone know of cheap HD-DVD players, or a way to get HD DVDR to your computers hard drive, I can only find 500$ hd-dvd players.

Thanks
 
Well technically your monitor and video card are sufficient to display HD video.

BUT the HD DVD and Blue Ray discs have a new copy protection (HDCP) that sends the video encrypted, which has to be decrypted by the display itself so you can't capture the HD signal and copy the video.

Only the new HDTVs with HDMI can decrypt HD DVD and Blue Ray discs.
And yes, the computer drives are very expensive, as the standalone players are.

It's just a few years ago that I bought a 2x speed CD-R drive for about $600. HD discs is new technology, these things are getting affordable pretty quickly.
 
If your monitor is displaying anything higher than 720 resolution, its HD, BUT IMHO, the whole point of HD is having a big screen.

I repeat having a BIG screen, personally I'm hoping to get a 52" Rear Projection DLP TV, HD on a small screen does'nt look all that different to decent SD picture, infact you may not even notice the difference, its only untill you go bigger than say 32" that things start to make a difference.

Anhar
 
MarcusX said:
BUT the HD DVD and Blue Ray discs have a new copy protection (HDCP) that sends the video encrypted, which has to be decrypted by the display itself so you can't capture the HD signal and copy the video.
Click to expand...

I thought they backed down on this and would allow the full resolution through component and DVI as well.
 
My last information is that you get HD only via HDMI+HDCP and a SD stream via DVI/analog.
 
That's a shame. I wish these companies would consult me before making decisions like that. :)
 
Damn I need to rent an HD DVD PLAYER + HDMI cables!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In arizona - pm me if by random chance you could supply - lol
 
I record HD TV onto my computer--with Windows Media Center, it's a big free Tivo.

You need a tuner card (mine is AverMedia) and an antenna for free over-the-air signals (otherwise a cable connection).

Check out http://avsforum.com/ for an insane amount of info on this and every other techno subject.

http://avsforum.com/
 
Sean I am putting together a pc with WMC to watch hd and edit with Vegas. Are you editing and recording etc. on the same pc. Are there any hardware/ software conflicts? Dual monitors for editing and a plasma for viewing is what I'm thinking.
 
One clarification of my earlier post: you need an HD tuner card. Most tuner cards are SD, or at least they were last year. I bought my HD card from Amazon for only $70 or so. Cheap and works like a charm.

There is a software issue with editing the Windows MCE recorded material. Microsoft has (annoyingly) come up with its own propritary recording format called DVR-MS. MCE records as this format, not AVI or MPEG. So to edit in Premiere (not sure about Vegas) you need to convert the file. Last year I searched for a decent file conversion program and never found anything. I'm sure they now exist, though I haven't looked recently.

The DVR-MS HD files are massive. A 3-hour show will clock in at over 20GB, so file conversion will take a while.

If anyone knows a good way to edit DVR-MS files, please chime in. :)
 
Hmm, Sounds like DVB2-T transmission, I know I capture DVB1-T on my happuage Nova T TV card (HERE IN THE UK) and I can capture the ACTUAL transmission signal in its "raw" stream then its just a matter of ripping the audio and video streams and re-packinging into MPEG2 DVD profile stream and voila you can play on ANY standalone DVD player, no transcoding what so ever, best part is that no quality loss. With HD through Terrestial transmission I'm not sure what they are using, my hunch is that it is DVB(version 2) and micorosoft is applying a wrapper...


wait a mo.....

Yep kinda what I thought, basically DVR-MS HD is nothing more than MPEG2 (HD profile) with AC3 stream, try opeing in TMPGenc Xpress 3.

http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/dmc_DVRMS.aspx

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=479504

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/53128.aspx

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/77264.aspx

TOOLS:

Womble MPEG Video Wizard (for editing)

DVRMSToolbox (to rip streams to MPEG2, AC3)

I hope that helps

Anhar Hussain Miah
 
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