Leadtek WinFast PxVC1100

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Sigma Designs is alive and well, they just dropped the PC market. They make SOCs for Blu-ray players and STBs, including the HD extender.

Yea, I'd forgotten about that part of their business. Hopefully they've come up with an all-in-one solution for Blu-ray players that will lower their cost. AFAIK, the current players are using mostly commodity parts to ease product development but it makes them more expensive. With a specialized Blu-ray player ASIC it would make the players cheaper along with probably making them perform faster.

[stanger89]

AFAIK, SD and Broadcom both sell SOCs for BD players. Sony had a model out under $200 recently (not sure if it's still down there or not).

[Clift]

Originally Posted by stanger89

AFAIK, SD and Broadcom both sell SOCs for BD players. Sony had a model out under $200 recently (not sure if it's still down there or not).

I think they have it for $229 on Amazon.com with $50 instant rebate or something like that. Sony also has a $399 spec 2.0 player now and if you buy it from sonystyle.com and sign up for a Sony card you get $100 off.


Anyway, the biggest thing i see with this spurs engine card is this:
Blu-ray movies, re-encoded to h.264 lower bitrate and DD5.1
You could burn said discs to a DL DVD with very minimal loss in quality at 1080p. And if you could do that in faster than real time, using your PC, this card, AnyDVD HD you could back up your entire Blu-ray library to a HDD or DVD-R.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Clift

Blu-ray movies, re-encoded to h.264 lower bitrate and DD5.1
You could burn said discs to a DL DVD with very minimal loss in quality at 1080p.

From what i've seen, "minimal quality loss" at 1080p will yield you at least a 10GB encode, probably closer to 15GB.

Of course, I still don't see the fascination of burning all the discs you own, but oh well.