worth every penny. at least for some people.
never have the need to go to the movies anymore. why visit the cinema when the picture and audio quality is better at home? not to mention can stop, pause, crank the volume up and down, change seating position, eat kfc while watching, pause and tend the crying son and... re-watch any movies again.

RM70 for each movie is worth every penny considering i need to burn at least RM50 for each visit to the cinema.

surely the family will tag along. the husband has to pay for everything la bro. tickets for everyone, popcorn, soft drinks. add those will increase the cost of going to the cinema exponentially
and that if the wife doesn't find something that she likes. if should accidentally stumble upon a 'cheap' RM200 'on sale' pair of shoes and home does seem like a more enticing place to be in. hehe

only if you're running a network media tank. them NMT have lots of problem supporting lossless mkv.

and yet most of the bluray and mkv (which is also compressed from bluray) are in 1.85:1 and 2.39:1 format which will have the black bar on the top and bottom because the video is wider than 16:9

so a larger screen is better at displaying it because you don't have to zoom.

well we can zoom it. that will remove the black bar at the expense of cropping the left and right picture.
think i'll go with a larger screen rather than projector at the living room.

still not enough for me

no thanks.
my htpc can plug in 13 HDD. still have slot for 3 more hdd. beats the speed of any NAS anyday and i don't have to worry about bottleneck from the network.

not really. just as big as my avr

there's not a single 1tb hdd in my htpc. believe me i have more than 13tb

Silverstone LC17

the case have slots for 6 hdd. simple mod and you could fit 8 hdd in there.


i don't use the 2X5.25" drive bay and that could fit another 5 hdd.


i've posted in the HTPC thread before. it is somewhat an old pic.

haven't thought of anything like that. it's a personal collection. doubt anyone would be interested in it.
but i'm not the only one. have another friend that has as large collection as i am.

not hot. not noisy. no fan noise could be heard 3 feet away from the casing.
and of course no noise could be heard when the a movie is playing at 85dB.

the htpc with all hdd running is quieter than my aircond running above my head.

the stock fan that comes with the casing. 2 silverstone fans. i believe any 80mm fan should be as silent.

a truepower PSU rated at around 500W should be able to power all the hdd. i'm using mostly samsung 5400rpm drives and those only require about 10W per drive.
i'm running 10 drives with a trupower 450W PSU and the voltage rails are still stable.


guys, i believe questions about my htpc should be inside the htpc thread. let's move discussions there shall we

because IMHO it's not worth go that route. MKV with TrueHD/DTSHDMA are already 20GB+
an uncompressed bluray files (m2ts or bdmv) with removed bonus tracks, commentary tracks, extra audio leaving only the movie itself (uncompressed) and TruHD/DTSHDMA (uncompressed) is only 25-30GB a movie. a difference of only a few gigs.

better to go uncompressed everything.

try and look for MKV with lossless track and see for yourself. lots that i find are more than 20GB.
lots of high bitrate MKV with an average bitrate of more than 10Mbps with DTS track is already more than 10GB.