Originally Posted By: Dignan
I think that PC should have no problems at those resolutions. I had my 3.2GHz machine with a much older video card playing HD content just fine.


Thats the problem with slapping the HD label on everything. Processing power needed to decode a 1280x720 MPEG2 at 1.5 MBit and a 2 channel MP3 audio stream is wildly different then a 1920x1080 H.264/AVC at 30 Mbit with a 7.1 lossless audio stream, but both come under the "HD" label because people only look at resolution.