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Yeah, I had it set at 30 MB/s which seemed like something the drive ought to be able to handle, but according to the UI anyway, SA never gets close to that number anyway.

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Well, I didn’t think I had commercial detection on, but I just checked and ShowAnalyzer’s directory watcher had gotten turned on at some point.

I have both the WD Black and one of the early WD Green drives (EACS) and I have fewer problems with stuttering when processes like ShowAnalyzer are running when I record to the green drive.   It doesn’t make sense, but that’s been my experience.  I cleared off the black and set it as my recording drive for the Olympics, but I may just switch back when I have a chance.

I think I’m going to stick to just trying to manually record individual events, though.  I don’t have the space to keep all of the Olympics coverage and don’t have time to watch it all anyway.  Hopefully the published schedule will be fairly accurate.

 

 

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My favorite has long been the Gyration line of remotes.   Sadly, they quit making them.  The closest I can find these days is the Dell version on EBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Dell-MotionSense-Motion-Sensing-By-Gyration-Remote-/360349295415?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53e67de337

I’m tempted to buy one so I have one when this one dies (the gyroscope can be fragile, though my current one has held up very well.)

 

 

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I think you’ll be fine with that set-up.  I’m running a Core i3 2100T an a DH67GD motherboard and while I haven’t bothered making sure everything can bitstream audio, the HD works great, and bitstreaming the audio should work if I configure it.

You might find some useful information in this guide: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/bitstreaming-hdmi-hd-audio-formats-your-htpc

It doesn’t have the latest generation of GPUs listed, but they should all be capable of bitstreaming audio.

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Chasseur:  My TV does have a game mode, but it didn’t help.

 

What did help was upgrading to the latest TMT once I got the activation code issue worked out.

 

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

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I guess I’m confused. How can I get the key from the website if the website won’t give me a key?

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Interesting. Apparently the reason I can’t find the setting for 24p is that the version of TMT 5 I have doesn’t support it.

I’m working with Arcsoft customer service to try to get an activation key for the latest version.  Their website is telling me that I’m not eligible for an upgrade.

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My TV is a low end model and doesn’t have any sort of video processing.  When I bought it I figured it was mostly a monitor for the HTPC so I didn’t need all the extra bells and whistles.

 

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Well, the BIOS update didn’t help, and I found the specs for my TV online and it doesn’t support 24p anyway (it only supports it via 2:3 mode which is not supporting it in my book..)  The stuttering is a little better when I set the refresh rate to 60 instead of 59 in the video driver (the only choices it gives me), but it’s still there.

I checked Arcsoft’s forums and saw several suggestions to people to turn off HA to fix stuttering, and that seems to help a lot for me, I guess I’ll just have to watch what I’m running in the background when I’m watching Blu-Rays.

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How would I know if it’s switching to 24p (and whether my TV can even accept that…)?

 

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I wanted to update this, just in case someone’s keeping track.

The replacement Agility 2 drive I put back in my HTPC crapped out on me Saturday night.  (Running on an Intel H67 motherboard)

I had a 60 GB Solid 3 I bought for another build that I ended up not doing, so I updated it to the latest firmware and restored my HTPC image from WHS onto that, but it wouldn’t boot.  I ended up reformatting a conventional hard drive from another PC and using that for now.

Two more RMAs to OCZ.  I’m not real happy with their products at the moment.

 

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What Bad_Apples says is true, pretty much any video card made within the last year or two should work. 

There’s a good comparison article on this site: http://www.missingremote.com/guide/gpu-comparison

 

A Radeon 6450 or 6570 or NVida GT 430 or better should fit the bill here from what you’ve said and should fit in your budget just fine.

 

 

 

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Just to clarify, that’s not the same one as was originally posted.  The one from CompUSA is the Vertex Plus, but the original deal from Newegg was for the Vertex 2.

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Doh!  Sorry about that.   I must have had this deal confused with a different one   Still not a bad deal, and based on the comments below, better than I originally thought 🙂

Edit:  I also had the controller wrong, this one has “Indilinx Arowana FTL with HyperQueuing; which significantly increases sequential write speeds and random IOPS over the previous generation FTL”

 

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CompUSA/Tiger Direct now has these for $109 after rebate if someone wanted one and missed the earlier sales.  It seems everyone is getting rid of their stock on these older SSDs.

http://www.compusa.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1068616&sku=O261-6401

Keep in mind this is a first gen SSD with the Indilinx barefoot controller (apparently tweaked a bit from the original Vertex drives.)   It will certainly be faster than a spindle drive but not quite as fast as the newer drives with Sandforce controllers.   That said, I’m running an original Vertex drive in my laptop right now and it works great.

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1. Comcast
2. Rolling Meadows, IL
3. Locals and Expanded Package Copy Freely, premium copy once
4. No
5. Don’t know (they should, but my install pre-dated the rule change.)

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