The cost to go to pure digital (ignoring the cost of the TV--since you<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">need it for both) is relatively small (if you can actually get a
<br>480i/480p digital TV signal). Going to HDTV is still relatively<br>expensive. You'll need a good processor and--most importantly--/lots/<br>of storage. (I'm starting to think my Athlon X2 4800+ needs upgrading
<br>so I can do HDTV at 1.5x timestretch--although I'd really like 1.75x<br>since that's where I watched almost all of my SDTV. So, how much do you<br>think those Phenom's/FASN8's will be? Or does anyone know if an X2
<br>6000+ will do it?)</blockquote><div><br>I have an Athlon 64 4200+ X2 playing a "planet earth" episode timestretched at 2x as I'm typing this. I'm running Ubuntu edgy 64. I built an smp kernel myself, but there's nothing special about it. I've got myth deinterlacing and resizing the stream to 720p which is native for my TV. I can actually watch HD timestretched while comflagging a couple of other shows simultaneously with no skipping or choppiness of any kind. This is w/o the use of XvMC also. I would think your box could do the same, if not better.
<br>-J<br></div><br></div>