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HTPC

Part 3

Video Card

There is no standard graphic card. All video functions are done by AMD APU Processor equipped with 8 GPU Radeon R7 Cores. The BIOSTAR Motherboard has HDMI, DVI and VGA video ports. VGA port is used to run front panel 7" touch screen to control all basic functions.

The HDMI 1.4 port is for sending 4k video stream to my Flat Screen TV.

There is another HDMI port on XONAR Audio Card which uses HDMI signal to enhance already perfect picture. It is HDMI Through type connection. Useful to enhance old DVD movies even more than software using Power DVD can do.

 

Picture quality decoding High Definition (Bluray) media is awesome. Even standard DVD playback looks better, thanks to upsampling of that format to almost HD quality using CyberLink Power DVD player.

This board is HDCP compatible, that means, it can be connected using HDMI cable with any modern Flat Screen TV supporting HDCP Copy Protection. Most new LCD, LED , Plasma TV do support HDCP. All commercial Bluray discs are copy protected using HDCP. However, if your monitor is not HDCP compatible, always is a solution. One of the solutions is software which can bypass or disable HDCP copy protection like AnyDVD HD from SlySoft. That software utility lets you:

• Watch movies over digital display connection, without HDCP-compliant graphics card and without HDCP-compliant display.

• Removes BD+ copy protection from Blu-ray media.

• Removes region codes from Blu-ray media.

• Removes encryption (AACS) from Blu-ray media.

Another amazing feature of AnyDVD HD is "magic file replacement™". Remaster any commercial movie disc using simple XML scripts. These scripts will "magically" replace the files on the physical disc. You can customize discs as you like without even making a copy to harddisk.

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