How Do You Watch Your Dramas

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:50 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It sounds like the best approuch for a pc to tv set up is to simply treat the tv as a second moniter and bypass Windows media center usage altogether. What concerns me for many of my friends is the age of their tvs. Few have HD sets and thus most probably lack component hook ups. I know there are video cards with s-video out but I would be concerned about what that does to the display quality. Particularly if they need to buy a new video card to make it work, it would suck if the shows took an image quality hit.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:26 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Releanoyed

I'm just using XP with the codec and media player pack from cccp-project.net. All of the computers on my network have file sharing enabled so they are available through the Network Neighborhood and I use a Remote Wonder from ATI to wirelessly control the media server. This way I can surf to any folder on any computer and stream the media of my choice, video or music. And likie madlandyman I have my machine connected to my surround receiver via digital coax cable. So I get dolby digital sound all the time Smile

I have Microsoft Media Center on one of my machines, but I don't like it. I don't like watching my media the way bill gates thinks I should. And it's slow even on a blazing fast computer. Bottom line, use whatever works best for you. In my case simple works best. And if one is on a budget the modded Xbox is a great way to go. And it should play nice on a network, even with Macs as its really designed to be used by FTP file delivery and some folder sharing.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

For audio I have the Xbox connected with optical cable to a Yamaha surround system. It is amazing the difference surround sound can make on a movie. Less relevent to most dramas, but some of the newer ones have had nice sound encoding.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Yep, I run an s-video cable from my computer to TV and I prefer it because of the lower resolution the video quality doesn't look so bad on TV. It's easiest because I can watch with softsubs, watch PPstream or anything else

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 11:45 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I watch my drama's on my computer (in my bedroom Big Smile

) but... I using Windows Vista, MediaPortal (with lastest SVN), 2.1 Speakers, lastest ffdshow (drevil_xxl version), 17" CRT Monitor ( Thumb down

), ATi Radeon X1550 512MB and the drama's stored on a 250GB SATA HDD.

Do you watch your dramas with PC or Stand Alone DVD Player?

If you watch with Stand Alone player, do you mind sharing the make and model? I can't stand the Philips 5982 I got at Costco since it cuts off most of the subtitles, and for some reason it's not even showing the 2nd line when I use subtitle workshop to edit it.

Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

IMHO as of this moment, nothing is better at playing dramas than XBMC.

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Buy a 1080p capable lcd tv. You can use them as a regular tv to play games and whatnot and it can double as a computer monitor at the same time.

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 1:59 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:52 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I them from my PC, because I still haven't find the cable which is used to connect the two devices.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It doesn't cut off my subtitles. I'm using two LCD's. A 19" 720p and a 46" 1080p. Samsung models 1953H for the 19" and 4665F for the 46." Got the 19" for free with the purchase of the 46." The 19" retails for about $400 and the 46" for $2200.

There are no downsides that I see so far with the 46" but with the 19" there's no way to display in high resolution. I can use the full 1920x1080 to view PC output on the 46" but on the 19" I have to use 1024x728 compared to using 1280x1024 on my old CRT monitor. I like displaying things in higher resolution so that I can fit more things in the screen so having objects bigger than they used to be is kind of irritating. Having better video quality is small, small plus, too =P. It is a big plus upgrading from a 15" monitor to a 19" though. I'm currently using vga and component for video but I'll be upgrading to hdmi and optical to try and get the best results once a buy a PS3.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I watch them on my philips dvp5982 divx player; player comes w/usb port so I can either burn shows on a disc or connect my external hard drive to the player. It doesn't play all the dramas/anime but it plays a good majority of it. Still a happy camper =)

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Well I do the burn the data in a dvd (so my computer doesnt get to full) then I watch them using my x-box Laugh

so im not the only one that does that Tongue

Its the best! Even taught I do watch them here too since my monitor is 17" so I dont mind much, but that happens when I cant wait to much! Like Why Why Love thats a Drama I have to watch as soon as it finish downloading yey Wub

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

i like to watch dramas on my comp, simply b/c i have 2 screens going... so can have one screen dedicated to watching drama... while still see what's going on with my skype & msn