hi guys, i have bought a sony bravia 40" tv and i want to view hd programms on it. with all the options of hd recievers on the market i am not sure which 1 to go for. i have 1 hd lead and 2 cat 6 leads buried in the wall ready as i am going to put all control equipment in my office upstairs as i dont want any clutter in my livingroom.

can anyone advise me on what is the best system to view hd channels / record. can you use a pc.

thanks in advance

Martin

you can either get skyhd but all the transmissions are currently 720i

only way to play 1080p is with a player, so if it were me id build either a pc (vista) or use linux, as posted before linux mce is designed for this

can you point me in the direction of a prebuilt pc with bluray that would be suitable

thanks

PS3

just gotlinux installed on my PS3 and is all good

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products...;l=en&s=dhs

but id look at a silent one if its going in the lounge, depends on what you wanna do with it really. You will need hdmi really for hd, you can do it without but i think some disks require it

if i bought a ps3 how wuch work is it to install linux on it, would i be able to pickup bbc, itv etc? would it be full 1080p?

thanks

Martin

dunno, thats a bit serious, there were iso's for the ps2 but as i dont have one i have no idea. That core processor might make it hard

how did you manage with loading linux on your ps3 camerabloke?

lol missed CB's reply

you can either get skyhd but all the transmissions are currently 720i

only way to play 1080p is with a player, so if it were me id build either a pc (vista) or use linux, as posted before linux mce is designed for this

Skys website still states that programming is broadcast in 1080i or 720i whichever is suitable.

Football will be 720i for example but films made in 16/9 1080i format should be broadcast in 1080i.

There was talk of complaints when the bitrate was turned up in 1080i as some SkyHD boxes couldn't handle it and jammed!