[Aquarius]

I have a not-HTPC equipped with an Athlon X2 245 2.9GHz using the integrated graphics Radeon 3000.
It is enought for my needs (watching DVB-T live tv and some movies 1080p, 720p but also MD...on a 27" LCD panel).

Reading this thread I were scared by the messages saying the J1900 in not enough for playing full hd movies, but alfter re-reading the entire thread it seems the only problem on upscaling. Am I correct? If so, I would bought an Asrock Q1900B-ITX.

In other words, going from a Radeon 3000 http://gpuboss.com/graphics-card/Radeon-3000-IGP to a bay trail is an upgrade or not? I'm not an expert, I saw the shaders of the Radeon are 40, and the bay trail has only 4EU (so, 32 shaders, right?)....

Thanks.

Scaling is not an issue. Quality scaling is a problem. It's more intensive on the GPU, and ours is not powerfull enough. My HD movies are all played fine, without any special configuration. But as someone stated above, upscaling 720p to 1080p is not a problem. even the most basic upscaling will do a fine job for this. the problem is when you upscale SD content (like DVD) and interlaced things. For this, you need a good upscaler. Note that a lot of receivers will do a fine job with this, too.