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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #15 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 19:22:06 »

High def media input. I made that up
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 19:25:11 »

high def multimedia interface, but close.
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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #17 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 19:26:01 »

Oooh
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« Reply #18 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 19:29:50 »

High def media input. I made that up

Not a bad guess. High Definition Multimedia Interface. I had to google it.

It's a High Def connection JPC. Your fancy telly will have it, laptop would have to be quite new I'd have thought.

[url width=400 height=400]http://www.k1cable.com/images/hdmi_000.jpg[/url]
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JPC82

« Reply #19 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:02:09 »

yeah my laptop doesnt have that, another quick question, if i downloaded a movie in blu ray and played it on my tv through my laptop would it be blu ray quality even though my laptop hasnt got blu ray, does that make sense?
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« Reply #20 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:37:12 »

The resolution you can get through S-Video is not high definition quality. So the answer is no.

If you want full HD your best route would be to get a media streamer or an external media hard drive with an HDMI connection.

In fact, I managed to find one that does both: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-044-FC

You can either transmit a video over your wireless connection to this and then hook it up to your tv via HDMI for full 1080p ralphy goodness, or you can put a hard drive in it and store your videos on there (like a normal hard drive) and hook it up to your tv via HDMI.

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JPC82

« Reply #21 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:39:04 »

so i download bluray movies from the net but save to that media hard drive u just posted then instead of my laptop?
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« Reply #22 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:40:16 »

You must have a very good laptop if it's good enough to render a Blu Ray film.
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JPC82

« Reply #23 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:44:55 »

my laptop is nothing amazing, so are u saying that it wont retain the bluray its quality as its downloading unless the laptop is shit hot?
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« Reply #24 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:48:21 »

It'll download it, but just won't play it smoothly.
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« Reply #25 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:51:59 »

Try this: http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/bd-support/enu/index.jsp

It'll tell you if your hardware is good enough for Blu-Ray / HD-DVD
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Don Rogers Shop

« Reply #26 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:54:39 »

Si what is ralphy goodness
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« Reply #27 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:57:06 »

If the download is in full blu ray quality, you can just put it on that hard drive and it will play it in HD. You'll need to add a hard drive though, that's just an enclosure, or use windows file sharing to do it. Would be a good method as it would save space on your laptop.

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« Reply #28 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 20:59:35 »

It'll download it, but just won't play it smoothly.

But using my method, you don't even use the laptop to play it.
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JPC82

« Reply #29 on: Friday, November 28, 2008, 22:19:43 »

any advice on what speaker systems i should be looking at?
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