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<blockquote data-quote="someone" data-source="post: 2254948" data-attributes="member: 217900">ok, let me explain. i have a huge tv, a nice samsung blu ray player and a awesome denon reciever and polk speakers + 2 subs. heres my problem though, i download alot of tv shows and movies off of the internet becuase i dont have cable anymore, and the only way to watch those shows is on a computer, or, burning it to a dvd and playing it on the samsung, or, transfering it to a external hard drive and plug it into the samsung, it works, but not all files are played and it has some issues playing some formats. i thought by buying a 800 dollar blu ray player from denon might fix the problem, but, im still gona have to waist time burning to dvd&#039;s or transfering it to the hard drive. why not custom build a small pc just for this purpose? keep it next to the tv and actually download stuff to it and watch it on the tv right from there, it might be a little cheaper, faster, etc...what pc parts would i need to build something like that? like, what kind of proccessor would i need to pull blu ray files in 1080p flawlessly? what kind of motherboard would you suggest? sound card? super fast hard drive?any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="someone, post: 2254948, member: 217900"] ok, let me explain. i have a huge tv, a nice samsung blu ray player and a awesome denon reciever and polk speakers + 2 subs. heres my problem though, i download alot of tv shows and movies off of the internet becuase i dont have cable anymore, and the only way to watch those shows is on a computer, or, burning it to a dvd and playing it on the samsung, or, transfering it to a external hard drive and plug it into the samsung, it works, but not all files are played and it has some issues playing some formats. i thought by buying a 800 dollar blu ray player from denon might fix the problem, but, im still gona have to waist time burning to dvd's or transfering it to the hard drive. why not custom build a small pc just for this purpose? keep it next to the tv and actually download stuff to it and watch it on the tv right from there, it might be a little cheaper, faster, etc... what pc parts would i need to build something like that? like, what kind of proccessor would i need to pull blu ray files in 1080p flawlessly? what kind of motherboard would you suggest? sound card? super fast hard drive? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance! [/QUOTE]

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