<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d7792685\x26blogName\x3dTech+Projects+Blog\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLUE\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://mjh40a.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_US\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://mjh40a.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d707463917575799204', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script>

Monday, June 19, 2006

Home Theater HD Project

Ahhh, I guess I knew this wouldn't be as straight forward as I hoped! Here are the results from the weekend:

  • The install of the DVICO USB product on the DVR system completed with no issues. I installed the Fusion HDTV product and was able to obtain a signal and was able to display HD content OTA. Success!
  • Installed the 4.3 Beyond TV upgrade and configured the two video/audio sources (DVICO and 250 card). The 250 installed fine but I wasn't able to get anything out of the USB device.
  • Decided that the issue with Beyond TV was probably a conflict with the overlay with something so I reformatted the 250 gig drive and reinstalled Windows XP, patched it, installed device drivers, installed the Fusion product, and then installed a clean copy of Beyond TV 4.3.
  • The video coming out of 4.3 was not clean like in the Fusion product. At this point I decided to try upgrading the Beyond Link product on the HTPC to see what the over the network performance would be like. Not good. Major stuttering when attempting to bring HD content over the 100meg wired connection. Probably need gig speeds for this. I'm planning on following up with the Beyond TV forums to see if anyone else is doing this.
  • Moved the DVICO product over to the HTPC system to see if this would work when directly connected to the system and displaying using the front end projector. Install worked fine, received HD signal for over the air content, but no video! This I think is related to the version of the Radeon drivers I'm using as I haven't upgraded this is a while. Next up, upgrade the video driver. More to follow...

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home