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| Sonnie wrote:
I have already mentioned elsewhere that once Lite-on makes the HTPC drives available for both formats that I would be interested in building my own combo player... provided they are priced what I would consider reasonable. |
NVIDIA now makes a nice video card that has a HDMI-HDCP output and is windows vista compliant. It runs about $250, and the drives will be pricey for a while, not to mention that you'll need 2GB RAM and preferably 4GB RAM to run smoothly without worry. So depending on what your current PC is stocked with, it might only cost you around $2000. As the drives come down in price, the HTPC dual format player becomes more and more attractive.
Either way, you'll be able to buy 2 stand alone players(1 HD DVD and 1 Blu-ray) for less than what a universal would cost ya to build. More and more people are adding HTPC's everyday, so OEM's are begining to respond with attractive media bundles on the cheap, though.