Nvidia Ion Home Theater Review - Best Of HD Nation.

Nvidia's Ion promises to be HTPC platform that home theater buffs have been waiting for, but does it deliver? This hands on review looks at the nVidia Ion and explores how well the platform works in building a home theater PC that can handle HD TV and Blu-Ray

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• ion
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• hands-on
• blu
• ray
• htpc
• 1080p
• intel
• atom

[lyoth]

for 800$ why dont they just buy a desktop, that has a quad core and any graphic card u want.

[jtnorg]

haha i love how the video skips when talking about how the atom deals with HD. thats a nice touch.

[MrRenevelez]

i got lost, i thought i was watchin a home theater review but this is all about a blu-ray drive and it cost 500$ my bad

[joshruehlig]

no you don't, you get the full HD playback on linux... since early 2010

[joshruehlig]

wow $500, I build ION2 boxes for $250...

[DJCronxx]

@lyoth because it's bigger ;)

and maybe u dont want to have a big case next to your tv^^

[1800Supreme]

@lyoth yes but u can put the PC on yur tv stand know what i mean this is an HTPC Home Theater PC

[experimental0000]

@Carrein I've seen alot of videos about those Acer revo R3610 net tops for htpcs and they seem to work pretty good, and yes using a home server to also get the media from then it's pretty quick and not that expensive.

[experimental0000]

@lyoth heck shop around tiger direct and new egg and you could build a mid tower htpc for less than $500 that will do what robert's does and then some. I did that on paper to prepare for it and it came out to at most (based on the cpu) was about $360-460 it's not some 6 core beast but a dual core low power chip above 2.2 ghz 1 gb video , 4 gb of ddr3 500 gb hdd and a nice case. for their $800 could easily be core i5 and 8gb of ram and one or two high end 1 gb gddr5 video cards agree with u

[GingerPainter]

A slim Blue Ray Player is around 300 bucks eff that 

[pitlock96]

god poeple are so lazy now, all you got to do is push a button not like your carring stones up a parimid in the dessert during the summer's hottest day with only half a cup of water while getting little food with sleeping on a memery foam rock that gives you cuts every morning with sunburn on your eye lids so every time you blink it hurts with horrible pain so stop complaining just my thought!!!!

[GarebearShields]

OR.. I could just get an Apple TV for $99, and do all this from my tower or laptop..