Windows Media Center on Dell Inspiron Zino HD

This short video clip shows what Windows Media Center under Windows 7 is like with the new Dell Inspiron Zino HD small form factor desktop PC. This inexpensive PC makes for an inexpensive HTPC capable of playing back a wide variety of content in the living room.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Dell
• Inspiron
• Zino
• HD
• HTPC

[jebotijamater12345]

Hey,

i don't have a Zeno, but i had a similar issue of Screen-fill with my HT set up.

Downloaded the newest catalyst control center, and used the "overscan" feature of the card to fill the screen properly. Don't know if you tried that.

[krunkermedia]

@jebotijamater12345 You know - I tried the latest catalyst drivers but I ended up getting stuttering playback for HD content under Windows Media Center - almost as if video wasn't being hardware accelerated anymore. I honestly haven't tried it since but one of these days I hope to revisit this.

[ilovemaryam08]

Your a cheapo!!!! you should have payed for the discrete graphics card.

[krunkermedia]

@ilovemaryam08 yes, I guess you could say I was a cheapo. My goal was to see what kind of performance I could get from as low as a price as possible. Mind you I did upgrade to the highest end dual core processor available on the Zino HD. If I were to have gotten a discrete graphics solution, the overall system price would have gotten to a point where one would seriously consider other competing alternatives (of course the form factor is something to consider too if that's your thing).

[fataldesain]

how quite is the system.

[krunkermedia]

@fataldesain It's fairly quiet - I notice my Windows Home Server box far more than the Zino HD.

[CardboardCelery]

how come these small pc's have such timy rams and stuff with the smaller laptops have much larger ones?

[gustavo36732363]

eu sou portuques ta

[xLithiumMan]

I'm looking on the Dell website and I was wondering.... From these two, which is better (performance wise/multi-tasking wise):

AMD Athlon™ II X2 P360 (2.3GHz/1MB cache)

AMD Phenom™ II X4 P960 (1.8GHz/2MB cache)

[rwyankees]

@krunkermedia. Adjust your overscan and that will remove the black boarder around the edges of the screen. They are really hidden in ATI's interface though. But it is there.

[bluedog916]

how fats is this thing i mean it's cheap small i was thinking about it but is it good enougth to run something like addobe premier or anything like that

[dvstudiosproductions]

hey, nice video, but next time, I'd suggest turning off auto focus on the camera and using the manual focus to avoid bits of un focused video, such as at 2:05 heh.

[hulkhatepunybanner]

Not a good critique: no TV tuner card or music playback demo. Seems a bit unprepared.

[MrKohlification]

nivdia can ajust =]

[sofianebenzaza]

Hi krunkermedia,

I wanted to know how do i choose my hdtv so that the Zino HD graphics card can give me Windows 7 fullscreen the way you do?

thx

[mrhenderson]

You gota auto-adjust the tv for the screen to fit on all sides without the black band...go into your tv settings homie