Off topic quick report on the Dell Zino HD

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Off topic quick report on the Dell Zino HD

Posted by Rich Bilancia on Dec 19, 2009

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I just received and setup an early Christmas gift that I got for myself—a Dell Zino HD which is a Home Theater PC (HTPC).

I have a rather simple setup with only two devices connected to my LG 55LH40 TV: a Motorola DC3146 DVR with service from Comcast connected via HDMI and the Dell Zino HD also connected with HDMI.

My black Dell Zino HD has an upgraded AMD Athlon 6850e 1.8GHz Neo X2 dual core processor, an ATI Radeon HD 4330 512MB graphics card and is running Windows 7 Home Premium. The Dell Zino HD is wire-connected to my gigabit home network with DSL service from Qwest. I have upgraded to the latest ATI Catalyst drivers and Adobe Flash 10.1 beta and use a Microsoft Remote Control and Receiver for Media Center PC with Windows® to control the unit.
I also have a SiliconDust HDHomeRun device that coverts both over the air HD TV and my Comcast Cable service to IP data on my local network. The result is a very slick setup that gets very good results for watching and recording broadcast HDTV, DVDs, Hulu and other internet video.

Some pics after the break.

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rabilancia

Jake_Speed,

I'm not sure that MobilitySite.com is an appropriate place for a full review of an HTPC, but I'll talk w/ Chris Leckness about doing one after I complete a phone review I'm working on.

My LG TV is 1080P and the picture from the HDHomeRun is just about perfect. The only issue has been Flash playback from Hulu. But I got that pretty much solved with with a video driver update and the installation of Flash Player 10.1 beta that supports hardware accelleration.

ben

Any update on this setup? I'm thinking of getting the same Zino and wasn't sure what you thought about processor, specifically do you think that maxing out the processor is necessary?

Jake_Speed

I hope you have a review for it after you had a chance to use it for a while. How's the quality of the picture and the smoothness of the video? It looks to have pretty good specs.

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