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Originally Posted by cat6man
i used to have a couple of Hauppauge mediaMVP but sold them as they
cannot support HDTV.
i now have a Zensonic z500 and a JVC IOdata SRDVD-100u (basically a LP2
plus DVI output).
both play video and music and can connect digitally to a hdtv.
iodata support is flaky at best.....zensonic is new but support and bug fixing
seems superior.....i would lean towards the z500 when they go on sale outside of australia (i bought mine by mail from australia)
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I agree that I-O Data support is poor at best but basically the LP2 works fairly well. The point to be made here is that there is a viable alternative to HTPC and that is networked media players.
BTW when you step into the world of High Definition your in a world that is in a state of confusion, no approach is easy or perfect, which does not take into account that there is very little HD material around (other than HDTV). HDTV broadcasts are good when they are good but there are lots of times they are full of distracting problems.
Maybe in a few years HDTV and HD material will be more consumer friendly but I strongly suspect that it will be much harder to record in a way that you can manipulate it. It seems to me that the media industry is forcing the introduction of HDTV at a rate at which they can incorporate encryption and copyright protection.