At some point in the next few months I'm going to look into a modest home cinema setup.
So far I've settled on a Planar PD7010 projector, a Q Acoustics 1010 5.1 system (with the 1030 floorstanders for fronts) and will reuse my old Sherwood AV amp for the time being. I'm mainly interested in watching my old DVDs and HD movies from Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD.
What should I do for HD inputs, stick a Blu-Ray+HD-DVD drive in my computer or get a PS3 + a standalone HD-DVD player?
On the face of it the optical drive looks the better option as it'd allow me to use both formats, be cheaper and won't require me to find any extra space for AV equipment or a console. There could be drawbacks that I'm not aware of though and that's why I'm asking.
Cheers
So far I've settled on a Planar PD7010 projector, a Q Acoustics 1010 5.1 system (with the 1030 floorstanders for fronts) and will reuse my old Sherwood AV amp for the time being. I'm mainly interested in watching my old DVDs and HD movies from Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD.
What should I do for HD inputs, stick a Blu-Ray+HD-DVD drive in my computer or get a PS3 + a standalone HD-DVD player?
On the face of it the optical drive looks the better option as it'd allow me to use both formats, be cheaper and won't require me to find any extra space for AV equipment or a console. There could be drawbacks that I'm not aware of though and that's why I'm asking.
Cheers
so I'll put up with standard 5.1 for the time being.