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REALMagic Hollywood Plus vs. PowerDVD 6

 
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whats6x7



Joined: 04 Oct 2006
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:30 pm    Post subject: REALMagic Hollywood Plus vs. PowerDVD 6

Somebody explain this to me. I have an ASUS P4T-533 running a 2.8Gig PIV with 512Meg Ram. I was using PowerDVD 6 through a Geforce 6200 with 256Meg Ram set at 1280x720 - 60hz. I thought it was a pretty decent picture until I plugged in an upscaling DVD player. MUCH BETTER.

I just picked up a Hollywood Plus on flea-bay with all the cables. I looped the VGA card through it, set it all up, and played BattleStar Galctica Razor through it at 1280x720 - 59Hz and it is MUCH better than my 6200 and equal to the stand alone DVD.

Why wouldn't a PIV2.8 running through a 256Meg video card be able to do as well as a $40 Hollywod Plus?

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Brian Hampton



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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:11 pm    Post subject:

I think the whole problem is PowerDVD.

That's one of the poorest DVD players there is.

I would be running Zoomplayer with WinDVD decoders. (But I gave up HTPC long ago.)

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