Home Theater PC

[Mythyk]

Greetings,

I am in the planning phase of building a Home Theater PC and am looking for some recommendations on what Video cards would be good for such a system. The graphic needs of the system will be mainly Video playback and compression and the system will only be hooked up to a HD wide-screen projection TV with composite, S-video, and DVI inputs. I would like to have a DVI or S-video option on the video card.

If needed I would use 2 video cards also.



Thanks in advance.

 

[kurt454]

I just bought a 6600gt for my HTPC. The new Nvidia decoders look great on a Geforce6 card with Purevideo. Plus the card has plenty of horsepower to do VMR rendering at HDTV resolutions.

 

[shock311]

yeah, the 6600 gt would be the best method to go with Purevideo and all, but if you want to save some $$$, i went with a radeon 9550 and I use filters along with zoomplayer, goto http://www.htpcnews.com for any help building and setting up.

 

[Rage187]

I also use a EVGA 6600GT w/ component out.

 

[Mythyk]

Thanks guys for the reponse. I had another question reguarding video. What would you recommend for handling input signals for recording, don't need a tuner card, just something that has a couple inputs preferablly S-video.

Thanks