how well will this run 1080p movies running off my windows home server. I have an i5 laptop, and ps3 that play great. This box would be hardwired
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Makes a good HTPC. So far, this thing has handled every 1080P/5.1 movie I have thrown at it, and has been a good Plex server too.. Data drive is a WD NAS located in another room, through a gigabit switch, and it'll handle fetching, transcoding, and sending movies to Android minipc upstairs no problem.
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Windows 7 runs great on the 2010 Mac Mini. I have ours hooked up to our living room HDTV and Windows Media Center (w/Netflix) and Boxee both run flawlessly. Paired with a MCE remote and a USB HDTV tuner it's pretty much the best all-around HTPC setup I've ever had (and I've had several -- from custom built behemoths to ION-powered nettops).
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Has anyone played games on it?I just bit the bullet and bought the Samsung LN40A550 based on reviews. (Got ps3 for blue ray discs and I watch A LOT of movies.) I also like to play FPS and other games with a lot of movement and action. Has anyone noticed any sort of ghosting or blurring when they play games on it? Bad thing to wonder about AFTER I buy the tv, but I'm sure it'll still be worth it when I see my movies in a new-1080p-light.
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Alright, thanks for answering! I think I'll have to get a hdmi to vga converter to at least have the picture in HD then buy a bluray player later on.
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It would not be worth it. You would have to add a video card and a sound card memory and change the processor, it also doesnot come with software. It makes a great home server. Not a media player.
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I personally would use MPC-HC to play movies on it. I can use that software to play any copy write protected movie, such as Disney or Warner Brothers movies. It plays the movie at whatever the refresh rate of the disk or graphics card your using can handle and it has amazing sound performance. It works just as good as if you were watching the movie on your TV.
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Yes i tried both ways....i first burned it as a data disc and i also tried creating AVCHD DVD....in both cases i saw that PS3 audio is choppy in 1080p mode.....1080i doesnt seem to have any issues. The video camera itself plays the 1080p with no issues when connected directly to my HDTV....is this an issue with my PS3 ? has anyone tried this ?
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Hello Valobal, I am not sure if can do it through a DNLA server, I have mine configure over a normal LAN configuration and it works very good, plays MKV MP4, etc wiht the subs without any problem, hope this helps you and if you find a place where I can get a new one with good price let me know :) a need another for my bedroom :)
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All I can say, B.R., is that ours is streaming beautifully via our home WiFi network so, I don't see why not. Via USB stick...it plays .mp4s perfectly. I haven't tried any of the other formats. The wife and I are very happy with it. :-)
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Absolutely. This is why i bought this over the more fancy streaming devices out there. As i have over 1200 movies on my harddrive and wanted to be able to flip through movies instead of digging out the DVD for it. I run a 4 TB harddrive on it and there is never any lag and works flawlessly every time. It i use it for this and Netflix and does the job as needed.
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No!, please do not buy this mini pc for media streaming, or watch movies here is why:1. The video card is an old intel model, and they doesn't provide drivers for hardware aceleration, so videos won't play smooth, neither in windows or linux enviroments.2. This box lacks of hdmi, dvi ports for pure digital high resolution screens.You should look for a zotac mini pc, these boxes have better hardware and suppprt for what you're looking for.
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I can't vouch for Win7 performance, but run Win 8 off of it connected to my TV via HDMI with no issues (movies, music, streaming, etc). Audio also works over HDMI.
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read up on HDCP, and see the top review below. This may not work because of DRM.
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The software includes an app shop where you can install various media servers. If you install one of these, like Plex, then it will do transcoding on the box. I share directly off the server, so I had to code all my videos to .mp4 before I could stream to my client, this can be cumbersome. As for 1080p, you can share any resolution, themain factor that will affect this is your network throughput.
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Well basically it runs only on ac. It will not power up with usb power. Just a heads up, its a good bluray writer, I highly recommend you use verbatim discs, did not have good luck with sony in particular. Verbatim really do stand apart from the rest.
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Shouldn't have a problem. I am running this card in a system with a Pentium D dual core. So I would think you should get way better results than me. I run mine as a media server to my TV. Works great, streams over the HDMI beautifully. I really like the card for what I use it for. The only issue is that you will need space large enough for it, no mini cases or anything like that, and it needs good air movement. In my HP system that required me to drill holes in the side so it could draw fresh air. Then again mine is ancient, so you probably have a more modern case with more than 1 fan. If you want this card for extreme gaming... Well you would probably have something more than an i5 system. It will probably do decent for light gaming, I just wouldn't expect too much out of it. Hope that helps.
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I've had no problems streaming various media formats including h.264, avi, mpg2, and wmv to my LG TV and PS3. So I think the transcoding works fairly well. I don't subscribe to Plex Pass, so I can't report on how well it works there transcoding for other devices.