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Bought a Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector

My TV crashed (luckily it didn’t burn) so I was looking for alternative solutions and finally found the perfect one. The Sanyo PLV-Z4 projector does 720p HD and is very quiet. Looking around for a modeline for X I found several ones which should work but really doesn’t. I finally found the following one which seems to work rather well:

Modeline “1280×720″ 74.400 1280 1728 1768 1984 720 725 730 750 +hsync +vsync

I’ve watched different kind of content on it from TV, XviD, DVD to HD and it works really well with all. I was a little afraid that XviD ~800kbit would be very blocky but it is actually not a problem. Of course HD just looks amazing.

Joysticks are arriving tomorrow, then it’s old school arcade gaming time :)

2006
09/28
CATEGORY
HTPC
My Media System
Personal
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The future of HTPCs

So I was thinking today about what the future of home theater PC’s and where mmsv2 (or actually the next big version) fits into this.

I’ve come to the conclusion that what is really missing currently is integration. Your HTPC just stores the media and doesn’t really interface with the rest of the world. You don’t want to use your remote control to tag and organize your image collection. You want your HTPC for presentation, sort of like when you do a presentation. It should be slightly more advanced but not much. Instead the advanced jobs should be done on a regular PC and the synced with the HTPC.

This brings up the next question. How do we get there? I think firstly the interface should be designed with this in mind and then for the most used application, such as F-spot, a plugin could be written in that app to synchronize with mms.

2006
05/26
CATEGORY
HTPC
My Media System
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Currently reading

Kindle:

A Scanner Darkly

The Last Kingdom

Fight Club: A Novel