Graphic Cards ATI & NVIDIA Crush high-end DVD players :P

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Posting on behalf of zhopudey...

Until recently the most important reasons for purchasing a certain graphics card was either image quality or speed in 3D games. Nowadays the PC finds its way to the lounge and is used more and more as a multimedia centre. Because of this change in usage the quality of playing movies and video files is becoming an important factor in choosing a graphics card to power your system. Both ATI and nVidia have invested a lot of time and money in developing their video technology, and both claim to be able to produce the best quality. We found this a perfect reason to compare not only ATI’s Avivo and nVidia’s PureVideo, but also 12 stand alone DVD players, varying in price between $ 200 and more than $ 2000. We try to answer the question which is best for your new LCD television, a top of the range DVD player or a PC?
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[ Hardware.Info ] - ATI and nVidia crush high-end DVD players
 
now it will be interesting to see what the DVD player makers do :ohyeah: it could get hot in the future if graphics processors are integrated into the CPU ... then Nvidia might become a leader in DVD :S with ATI and AMD busy in the graphics dept :S .. am i seeing to many dreams :P ?
 
shrey said:
now it will be interesting to see what the DVD player makers do :ohyeah: it could get hot in the future if graphics processors are integrated into the CPU ... then Nvidia might become a leader in DVD :S with ATI and AMD busy in the graphics dept :S .. am i seeing to many dreams :P ?
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Whatever AMD might be wanting to do with ATI, ATI loves AVIVO very much. It has spent a lot of research on Avivo and its a much older technology compared to PureVideo from nvidia...

On a sidenote, I think PCs will never get into the main room for the mass audience. There may ViiV and Live and other stuff for marketting. But I guess the good 'ol deck/DVD player+TV is gonna last a lot longer than the tech companies want!
 
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