Just a quickie, but If I download a HD Video, for example something shown on BBC HD, and link my PC to my TV and view it, will I be watching a HD image?

My TV is a 40" Samsung HD and I dunno if it makes a difference but my GFX card is a Geforce 6800 ultra.

it depends on the resolution and compression settings of the download, but essentially yes as pc's have been hd for years. Just because say the clip has come from bbchd does not mean the downloaded clip will be hd.

For some good HD demo material search microsofts website for wmvhd.

Yes , this is possible.

How do you have the PC connected to your TV?

I'm guessing you'll have a DVI output , so go from that to a HDMI input on your TV and you should get the full 720p or 1080p resolution that your TV supports

Most HD downloads are half-rez... your average tv episode in low definition is about 300mb, HD is 700-800, double that for a 720p one :eek:

Ahh, I may give it a go, but you could be right about the download quality.

ViDEO: XviD at 1430 kbps

AUDiO: VBR MP3 ~128kbps 2ch 48khz

ASPECT RATiO: 16:9

RESOLUTiON: 624x352

FRAME RATE: 25 fps

ARCHiVE SiZE: 700MB: 49x15MB

Or, if you have a sat dish pointing at 29 degrees east (where Sky and BBC broadcast), you can get a DVB-S card and actually watch BBCHD footage live on your PC or on your TV (need a beefy PC to decode the mpeg4 though ) - oh and you can record the stream too