[x_merlin_x]

Hello everybody,

since discovering xbmc a week ago I am hocked! 1 Trillion Kudos for you developers! Thank you!

Now I would like to give my xbmc installation a decent platform to run and build an always on standby media station. I tried an old notebook with intel pentium m 1730, but this seems not to be good enough to run 720p. Unfortunatelly.

Now I am looking into nettops with atom 320 and ion. I would like to be able to connect to a beamer over hdmi and to a touch screen display through dvi.

Unfortunatelly I have not found a nettop that meets following requirements:

- intel atom 320 or better
- ion
- NO optical drive
- hdmi output
- dvi output
- min 4 usb ports
- price around 250 Euro

Do you guys have a good suggestion? I want to play 720p or even better true hd to be future proof :-)

I looked into revo, but that one unfortunatelly has only vga and hdmi, like most others.

Another thing is, that I currently only have a 5.1 receiver without decoder. Looks like I have to upgrade that one, too. Right?

Thank you for any help.

Merlin

[prae5]

iirc the zotac ion mobo's have vga, hdmi and dvi out.

[x_merlin_x]

you are right. Unfortunatelly their nettop does not. I am looking for a ready to install system. Any other suggestions?

[prae5]

Not aware of any that have both hdmi and dvi.

Why don't you use hdmi and a vga to dvi adaptor?

[SleepyP]

yeah most no longer include DVI since you don't really "need" it on an HTPC 90% of the time and an adapter is like $2.

[x_merlin_x]

do you believe you can make a dvi signal out of a vga signal? Does not sound plausible to me.

I found 2 nice ones, fairly unknown but seam to be great!
http://www.openpc24.de/-Mini-PC-Mini-PC-...-WLAN/a-2/
http://www.openpc24.de/-Mini-PC-Mini-PC-...03-BS/a-5/

What do guys think about those?

[prae5]

DVI passess both analogue and digital signals and adaptors and cables for it are common place and cheap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_nkw=dvi+to+vga&...Categories

[akg4y]

Not entirely true, DVI can pass digital, analog, or both I believe. Most are only digital at this point.

[x_merlin_x]

so what is the reason anyway to come up with different connectors? I believe you can pass a vga signal through a vga connector, but not a dvi through vga. Otherwise it would not have made sense to introduce new connectors. Right?