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BSMonitor - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkWindows 8 compatible?? Reply
elitistlinuxuser - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkI don't get why this is a question it already can run Windows 7. So windows 8 shouldn't be an issue Reply
crimson117 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkDetails are still fuzzy, but I've heard it comes with Windows ME pre-installed, and if you mail in a post card they will send you a DVD containing a product key that will allow you to download Windows 8 via Steam. Reply
sonelone - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkTrololololololol Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkYou win all the internets. Reply
B3an - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkSounds great. Even Windows ME would be better than OSX. Reply
zappb - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkAwesome - It looks like full resolution capable as in you should get extra screen real estate, not HiDEF? or whatever they used with the Ipad.
Awesome Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkWhat does that mean? Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkSince Apple doubled the resolution (1440x900 -> 2880x1800), they can double the DPI and all the UI elements will be the same size, but be twice as sharp and detailed.
zappb is asking if OSX allows the user the option of NOT doubling DPI. So UI elements are a quarter of their typical size, but you can fit four times as much stuff on the screen.
I know little about OSX, but I'd imagine there's also a middle road of choosing some non-integer multipler (i.e. not 1 or 2) that would yield an "best-of-both-worlds" effect. Everything is a little sharper, you can fit a little more on the screen and it's only a little smaller. The wild card is how OSX deals with non-integer DPI multiples. Reply
zappb - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkThanks for putting it into fluent english ImSpartacus,
Just spotted this on the Apple Store - Configurable to 1680-by-1050 high-resolution glossy or antiglare display.
This suggests that it does run at 1440x900 x 2 instead of actually being able to push 2880 x 1800. Would be interesting to see how Windows treats the resolution. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkI think you misunderstood what ImSpartacus said. The display physically is still 2880x1800, and the GPU still "pushes" 2880x1800. It's just that some UI elements have to be increased in resolution (pixels) to keep them the same size on the screen (inches).
A 100x100 button on a 2880x1800 screen will be a quarter the size in area of a 100x100 button on a 1440x900 screen. It will therefore have to be made 200x200 to keep it the same size, so that it is easily clickable. Reply
ssj4Gogeta - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkAh, thanks. zappb confused me because the screen should still be "full resolution capable" regardless.
Windows lets you change the DPI setting in increments of 1. It would be really stupid of OS X to not include such a basic setting. Reply
headbox - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkIn anticipating comments about cost: stop letting the world know how cheap/broke/underpaid you are. Do you complain about the cost of a Rolex, a Ducati, or a Porsche too? Even if you can't get that through your thick skull, think about resale value. As a percentage of purchase cost, an Apple product retains value higher and longer than any other electronic part. A 3yo Macbook Pro will still fetch $1,200-1,800 depending on specs, and people will line up to buy it. Your Dell/HP/Lenovo becomes a paperweight after you list it on craiglist for 3 months. Who's the smart buyer now? Reply
MadMan007 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkDepends upon how much absolute value each one loses, if it's the same then they are both equally smart purchases. Also, paying less means more money to utilize elsewhere. I'd like to say people would save or invest it but... Reply
Zodd - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkMac's arent the Porsche of the computerworld, their the same volvo with a shiny finish and only one pedal. Reply
sonelone - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkYour analogy is slightly problematic. If Macs were the volvos, then netbooks would be like bicycles. Here's a slightly more accurate analogy:
Bugatti Veyron: Alienware+Origin+Asus gaming laptops(Power and looks, low mpg)
SSC Tuatara: New MBP 15
Ferrari F12berlinetta: Samsung Series 7, HP Envy 15, Old MBP 15
Porsche: Ultrabooks, MBA, Smaller MBP
BMW 7 series: Dell XPS, Asus N Series
Toyota Camry: Large Budget Laptops
Honda Civic: Small Budget Laptops
Tata Nano: Netbooks Reply
Zodd - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkWhat i meant by the analogy, is that mac's use the same hardware inside as other manufactures. There's nothing special about them. Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkA laptop isn't a box with hardware in it. If you're looking for that, there are ~$1000 laptops with quad core CPUs and capable discrete graphics.
For the rest of us, the screen, keyboard, trackpad, battery life, connectivity and build quality matter. And since you correctly mentioned that computing hardware is mostly comparable, the only place for non-pricing differentiation is in the above areas.
So, as most things in life, this comes down to personal needs. Reply
Zodd - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkThe only thing that's better is the display and the only reason apple started using them is because people will buy their laptops and accessories even if they take an insane profit like their 92% profit compared to BOM on ram. Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link"Anybody can go buy the processors from Intel, but even the track pads from these companies can't match Apple."
That's from an analyst in a Wired article ( http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/macbook-pro... ) and I think it sums up the reason that Apple makes some of the best laptops on the market.
The screen is not the only meaningful point of differentiation from other laptops. The quality of the keyboard or the build quality might not make it onto a nice little comparison table, but they matter. Reply
solipsism - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkIf you'd actually look at the HW inside them you'd see they contain a lot very specific components designed by Apple for Apple. They even talked about several of them during today's keynote. Reply
B3an - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link...Yet another smug cunt Apple user. Die of cancer please, just like Steve. Reply
Impulses - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkCost seems apropiate to me, truth be told they could charge whatever the heck they want since for now they're the only ones pushing this high a resolution at 15".
However, I'm very disappointed none of the other models got bumped up... In some cases it's out of Apple's hands, they can only ship what display makers build, but ASUS is about to start shipping 1080p displays at 11.6" & 13". Where's Apple's Air equivalent? No wonder they dropped the price. Reply
JimmyTheJ - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkThat's 220.53 pixels per inch for those wondering. This is incredible! I gotta hand it to Apple for continuing their trend of improving screen resolution. It's one area where they are really having a great impact on the tech world. Reply
zappb - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkBut they've killed 1920x1200 model and replaced it with retina 1440x900...is it better? Reply
EnzoFX - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkAnd they say Apple doesn't innovate. It's about bringing great tech to the masses, not really about who does it first or whatever. In this case, I think they're both? Reply
mcnabney - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkPretty sure Apple doesn't develop, design, or manufacture display panels.
Buying off-the-shelf parts isn't innovation. Reply
seapeople - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkYes, because before Apple wanted them, there were all sorts of 15.4" 2880x1800 resolution panels out there waiting to be purchased. Heck, I just dropped by Sam's club a few weeks ago and picked a couple up to put in my Acer. Yep, no innovation by Apple here. Reply
rflynn88 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link$2,199 base price Reply
bleh0 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkThis is a good product. Definitely out of my price range.
Still wondering how close it will stick to "7 hours" in real world usage scenarios. Reply
alexs42 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkNice laptop, but pricey. I'm a little puzzled though that everyone is so excited (except for the display - that is very nice), since Samsung series 9, 15 inch model was released back in March with longer battery life, thinner (0.58 for the series 9 vs 0.71 for MB pro), 8gb ram, and reasonable display (1600x900) for ~1400. I can't wait for the Ivy Bridge updated version to come out, w/ Keppler. I'd be happy w/ 1080 or 1200 vertical resolution.
Now, Apple has done a nice job with presentation and all that, but this just does not seem as revolutionary in any way compared to the Win8 bonanza of transformers and touch seen at Computex....
I'd love to know what folks think about that... Except for the retina display and the amazing show that Apple puts on, it really seems rather pedestrian compared to the developments on the PC side. Stunning that it has come to that, as Apple has been pushing the boundaries for so many years.... Reply
kkwst2 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkYeah, between the new announcments by Acer, the new Samsungs, and the new MBP, it really is pissing me off how Lenovo can't release a high resolution IPS panel on its T series Thinkpad notebooks. Because despite all the Apple brouhaha, Lenovo still in most respects makes the best business notebooks - best keyboard, best pointing device (trackpoint), best chassis, best expansion options, ability to easily add another HDD in the ultrabay.
But their displays have gone to shit and they don't seem to care. There was a time when they had the best displays (while IBM still ran Thinkpad). Put one of the Samsung superbright IPS panels on a T430s and I'm sold again, even though they're tinkering with putting those damn chicklet/backlit keys that Apple drones love on it. I would still be happy with my trackpoint. But I'm not buying paying good money for another crap display. I'll stick with my T410s until I get a decent display option or finally setlle for a vastly inferior touchpad-only product. Reply
sonelone - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkI wonder how much Apple is going to charge for the larger storage options. Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkA lot.
They always do. Reply
CoLD FiRE - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkOnly a tiny charge of $600. That's a bargain by Apple standards! Reply
iwod - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkI cant believe no sites, including Anand mention this. After all the review and crying about IPS on Notebook, we finally have another choose, and it comes with Retina Display!.
It was mentioned on the features page
Now only if Anand could find out what the SSD Controller is, it is listed as 500 Read, another Sandforce? Or May be we get a sane new Marvell 88SS9187 Controller? Reply
crankerchick - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkI guess you missed the part where Anand says 2800x1800 IPS display... Reply
crankerchick - Monday, June 11, 2012 - link*2880 Reply
gus6464 - Monday, June 11, 2012 - linkSSD is a Samsung 830 in blade config. Reply


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Understanding 8-channel LPCM over HDMI: Why it Matters and Who Supports itby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/17/2008 2:00 PM EST
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nubie - Monday, September 22, 2008 - linkHow does the audio get to the receiver?
If the HDMI cable leaves the video card, and then travels to the audio card, and then to the TV where the audio is sent to a tuner, or to the tuner where the video is sent to the TV, it starts getting freaking ridiculous in short order.
Wouldn't it be more logical to have an HDMI to go to the Audio device, and another to go to the TV? Is that even possible?
I am not currently interested in paying to have my equipment functionality reduced. Although I am still being effected:
I want to allow my mother to watch Netflix online on her TV, fine I think: I have a ti4200 and a nice little mATX Socket 754 system, that will play Netflix online just fine.
Except for DRM. DRM has decided that TV output on a ti4200 is "unprotected", thus if I even have a TV output enabled on the card all video playback in WMP11 is halted. Any other TV output card is fine, my 6200, 6100, 7300, 7900, ironically a geforce4 MX series will probably work, as the on-chip TV encoder is likely supported by the Same DRM equipped driver that the MX4000 uses.
They all pass the buck, Netflix claims it is Microsofts DRM at fualt, Microsoft passes the buck to nVidia for not supporting their DRM by writing a DRM driver for the ti4200 series. nVidia sits on its laurels and claims "that is a legacy product", while happily providing a DRM driver for the Geforce2 based (and now PCI-E supporting) Mx4000 cards.
All of this is an artificial block to me using my equipment in ways it fully supports on content I payed for.
And none of this has stopped the bit-torrenting of movies. In fact it has probably increased it, as people who have shelled out $30-40 for a DVD version of their favorite movie now shell out $50-60 for the Blu-Ray version, only to find that they need "new hardware" or they will have artificial restrictions placed on their technically capable hardware, but of course it is highly illegal to download a ripped version of that content (or even rip it yourself) so that you can play it on your hardware.
The public doesn't understand this, in fact they probably won't notice that their video signal is composite instead of HD, even if that is the whole reason for the existence of Blu-Ray. The movie companies still keep claiming that this is "to fight piracy", yeah right. As soon as the pirate distribution of any movie reaches 1 million(or even a thousand, or even 1 if it takes me a couple mouse clicks to get the pirated copy) downloads I would like my purchased content to be released from this draconian "copy" "protection".
Call it what it really is "usage protection". See this comic for an Orwellian perspective on the direction this could be heading :P http://www.xkcd.com/129/">http://www.xkcd.com/129/
How long until free content will not play on DRM players? What will the excuses be? Maybe: "It is cheaper to build and saves the customer money, after all their movies should all support DRM if they aren't Pirates"
Moo people, just watch out for that slaughtering plant. Reply
danielmastia - Saturday, September 20, 2008 - linkI haven't read the article yet, but i looove the fact that the speakers on the diagrams are Bower & Wilkins. Love my speakers Reply
seefeel - Friday, September 19, 2008 - linkBeing a person who has spent time in screening rooms watching and listening to soundtracks being assembled, I can tell you that studios don't spend money frivolously on things that have no meaning to the audience. In their minds, great sound = more engaging cinematic experience = more money. That Dolby D sounded as good as it did considering it was nothing more than 5 channels of low bit rate MP3 is pretty cool. Now with Dolby Tru HD and the variants we can hear the same quality as the D1 Master.
I find it strange that the reaction from some can be best summarized as follows- you don't need it, wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it and besides, you could not hear it anyway because your hearing is damaged. Thankfully nobody in film sound community of any note feels the same. I might suggest this link to Dolby's website which has some great interviews with professionals involved in film sound and their views on a variety of topics. http://www.dolby.com/consumer/motion_picture/inter...">http://www.dolby.com/consumer/motion_picture/inter... Reading the interviews, I'm reminded of how sophisticated film sound is in it's ability to better engage us in the cinematic experience. For a great read on our hearing facility, I might suggest "This is your brain on music" by Daniel Levitin, which explains just how sophisticated our hearing actually is.
deeznuts - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkI used to be totally into HTPCs ... until I got my PS3. I know of the other uses for HTPCs (music, photos dvr etc.) but I just lost interest when I got the PS3 at launch. Criterion uses the PS3 as their reference BD player.
Good enough for me. Reply
geok1ng - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkAnother seminal article by Anand! You did it again!
This time i could not resist and took the liberty of posting a link to this article in a Brazilian HTPC forum: http://www.htforum.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1313156...">http://www.htforum.com/vb/showthread.php?p=1313156...
"PC audio is to audiophiles what militar justice is to Justice!"
How long will my statement be truth? Reply
HelToupee - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - link2) they only supported a maximum of 6-channels of audio (aka 5.1 surround sound: right, left, center, left surround, right surround and LFE/sub channel).
Umm.. There is a variant of DTS that supports 6.1. It's called DTS-ES. It hasn't been used much, but I got a good deal on a compatible receiver for the same price as one that only did 5.1, so I went for it. The only DVD's I own that actually have a DTS-ES track are the Lord of the Ring trilogy. Most 7.1 capable receivers will decode DTS-ES also and play the rear center channel through both the rear right and rear left speakers. Reply
adder - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkwhy cant these souncards have a 7.1 ch analog out ,i.e they should output the fully decoded HD audios formats so that people who have a older receiver can enjoy HD audio. Reply
vignyan - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkWhen decoding, does the application also encrypt the Dolby Digital TrueHD or DTS-HD MA audio? If so, the same should be true while sending the LPCM audio. Either way (TureHD or LPCM), the data has to be put in the memory w/o any AES-128 encryption. The GPU support of PAVP comes with ability to decrypt the AES-128 encoded signals. Assuming the the gfx cards dont have the protected audio capability, the application must be putting the un-encrypted audio in the memory which has to be sent over HDMI channel after translating the audio into the HDMI specified format.
Intel G45 supports HBR audio (>6.144 Mbps as with the Dolby Digital TrueHD or DTS-HD MA audio) with HDCP encryption. Previous versions of Intel chipsets did not have this capability. HBR, if i am not wrong, is introduced with 1.3a spec.
I am too poor to know if such features are enabled on the GTX2xx and ATI48xx... Send me a sample of both and i will let you know... ;)
dryloch - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI lucked out at a store called Brandsmart,they had that receiver on Open box for under 200 because the remote was missing. This is my second Onkyo and I will never buy anything else. For the money they charge Onkyo gives you a very feature rich unit with very clear and loud sound. When I compare the sound coming out of an 80 watt a channel Onkyo to a supposed 120W Sony it is obvious that Sony is trying to pull a fast one. Reply
Zak - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkAnd I'm not buying into this BS, but a lot of people will, for bragging rights. And all the encoding/copy protection is a big turnoff for me. I just don't see HD in my near future. As many posters pointed out already: I don't want to be punished by Hollyw$$d for being a paying customer. Anyway, I stopped even buying DVDs after Shrek2 when I found out that it has around 5 minutes of unskippable bullshit. I rent them from Netflix or download for free. I'd love to have my own collection of movies but with all the copy protection, offending FBI, CIA, WTF warnings, discs are not worth buying. I'd pay for a video disk that I can put into my player and get to the main menu under 5 seconds without having to watch crap and skip 5+ previews I don't care for. AND I want to be able to rip my fav movies to my hard drive so they're instantly available on my HTPC.
Z. Reply
gramboh - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkCopy protection on Blu-ray and HD-DVD has been cracked for a while. As predicted by many, it was a big waste of time. You can download full disc images (25-35GB on average) or x264 based encodes with DD5.1/DTS 5.1 sound tracks (4-6GB for 720p and 8-12gb for 1080p) from torrent sites already. It did take a while to fully break (I think AACS on Blu-ray was the challenge) but it has been done, so people are playing these disc images and encodes on HTPC type setups already.
Basically the industry is just punishing early adopters. The copy protection is irrelevant (especially HDCP) to people who are going to pirate the material anyway.
The only possible protection they can ever hope for is some online database of keys that players authenticate against before playing a title, but I doubt that level of connectivity (people having their players hooked up to internet 24/7) is closer than 5 years away, at which point uncompressed HDstreaming may be here (current HD streaming is useless and heavily compressed).
So dumb. Reply
jmurbank - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI agree. Studios still in the brick and mortar business. Today's world is about buying media from the internet and downloading the bought media like from itunes or zml.com. Then be able to freely be viewed or heard with out any annoying problems in between. People think downloading movies and tv shows for free right thing to do, so studios are forced to hire encryption specialists to help them find a a way to protect their investment from torrent servers at a cost of stating customers guilty for every action they take. There are rumors going around in the open source community that HDCP and other encryption methods that studios have placed in will soon be reversed engineer, so I or others do not have spend an arm and a leg to upgrade all equipment that support HDCP or other encryption tactic. Studios have to spend more time inventing new protection schemes, but when will people stop downloading illegally.
7.1 surround sound is for bragging rights and even 5.1 is for bragging rights too. Majority of movies rarely uses the rear speakers in each scene. Also people incorrectly setup surround sound, so they do not get the full effects. Two channels is just enough for movies but people are too brain wash to think that surround sound will be better. In order for surround sound to be better, the listener have to setup it up correctly.
Dolby Laboratories shows diagrams what 5.1 and 7.1 looks like on paper. Again on paper. In the real world paper does not stand ground for setting up surround sound. A good surround sound takes a lot of time to setup. It can take a day or a whole weekend to setup surround sound correctly. Rear channels for example should always create a null area at the listening area, but the sounds should be reflected to provide ambient sound. Using regular speakers as rears can be done but they have to be directed away from the listening area and point they directly at a material to diffuse the sound that will scatter the sound. Fancy rear speakers can be used such as bipole and dipole to ease awkward setups. Rear speakers should be at a height higher than head level while standing, but not at the height while sitting. The front speakers can be directed at the listening area. These are just small tips, but can fill a whole entire book.
Buying the best amps and sound cards should not be stopped there. Buying the best speakers also have to be looked at although do not have to buy the best amplifier and sound cards to get good sound. IMHO, BOSE cube/satellite speakers are not the best. Sound is very psychological. This means your sound system might sound very good one day and the next day sound horrible. It can take a month to setup a good sound system, so do homework or research which store provides a good return policy when you do not like the speakers.
The quality of cable depends on the person. I use OEM oxygen free copper audio cable because it has the less resistance which means more power can pass with out the chances of it overheating. I also build speakers and soon build amplifiers, so I just need to spend the money on surround sound processors. I am thinking of creating a project to provide the open source community to use the GPGPU to decode multimedia content because Linux does not have that support. nVidia removed XVmc support from GeForce8 cards and probably up, so I and many others are left to use high speed multi-processor setups running at 3 GHz or faster to watch HD movies in Linux. Reply
pattycake0147 - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkYou mentioned that your home theater is what really got you to take a closer look at this. Are there updates coming soon on the progress? I'm particularly interested on the software side of the project. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkI've definitely got a lot of updates that are in the pipeline. The projector actually *just* died so that put a hold on things, not to mention that Omaura getting out of the market threw a wrench in my plans for the HDD/main chassis split.
I'll get cracking on some updates in the next week though :)
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Guuts - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkClick the "Blogs" link, upper left, then on "Anand's Theater Construction" link on the right... I think there's a section or two on his HTPC setup. Reply
darckhart - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkThe big issue here is working as advertised. If the bluray disc comes with all the super-bloated lossless junk, then by golly I want all that super-bloated lossless junk played back perfectly. I don't want "Oh well see your HDMI version doesn't quite support that so we downsample...etc,etc," or "Oh sorry that part isn't in the 'protected path' so it won't work...etc,etc," or "See all your hardware components didn't support hdcp using hdmi-this or new-fangled-acronym-cable-that." Get your crap together Hollywood and hardware manufacturers before selling me some half-baked product. Oh, and get rid of that DRM junk and FBI warning junk and unskippable trailers junk and any other crap that hinders my viewing experience. I bought the movie to see the movie, not solve 10 jumping puzzles before seeing my movie. Reply
fuzz - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkcouldnt agree with you more.. HDCP, AACS, CSS.. it's all just a big waste of time that hurts the industry a lot more than it helps.
but if you are a HTPC user with these same concerns, you really should send a couple bucks to the boys who make AnyDVD.. not only does it remove any need for HDCP compliant BS and allow you to rip any movie (DVD/HDDVD/BD), it has options for stripping all PUOPs from a disc dynamically as well as jumping straight to the movie upon insertion :D Reply
Fant - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkAs far as I know even the PS3 doesnt support outputting DTS-HD 7.1 via HDMI. I believe they downsample it to 5.1 in order to output it over HDMI. Reply
jnmfox - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkIt does support DTS-HD 7.1 but there are reported problems with some blu-ray disks from New Line, Lionsgate and some others, that the PS3 downsamples to 5.1.
Follow the link for a list:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=10...">http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=10... Reply
PatMeenan - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkThe biggest problem with a repeater solution is keeping the video and audio signals in sync (a lot easier when they're going through the same device). I hope all of the repeater "HDMI audio" cards support adjusting the timing to compensate. Reply
Mastakilla - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkfor movies and music the sync issue can be solved on a decent receiver...
the big problem is for people (like me) who also want to play games on the same system...
you cannot sync your keyboard / mouse input with a delayed sound / image!
that is the real issue for me and exactly what i would like to see some focus on in a decent (anand) article
the forum link i posted above touches the same topic... Reply
Mastakilla - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkBeen waiting for something like this for a long time now...
I hope the final in depth article will cover all aspects of sound on a PC (movies, music and gaming)
I have started a thread about the lack of decent information on this topic awhile ago on your forum:
this includes a request to review the Auzentech soundcard toghetter with Onkyo or alike receivers as well
Hope you can make this mess a little more clear :)
thanks in advance! Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkI don't have the Auzentech card yet but I did just get the ASUS card in and will be working on that shortly. As soon as I get the Auzentech I'll add that to the queue :)
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Zefram0911 - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkAnyone know when this card is coming out? I've been waiting for it since it's press release in June that said this month. Reply
AnnihilatorX - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkProtected path, all the bells and whistles would utterly fails at the end point. To make content viewable, ultimately you need to have it decoded. There is a weakest link between the image processor on your monitor and the HDCP chip. Surely uou can eavesdrop on the electrical signal coming from the monitor's driving circuit. Reply
Xenoterranos - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkWell yes, but the mechanism to do that would be hardware based, and thus, somethign you can't download from bloorayhax.ru, which the studios are most affraid of. Remember Css? That didn't go to well for them.
(Besides, this is moot. Read the above posts about AnyDVD HD: the encryption has already been broken) Reply
Golgatha - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI'd be happy if the Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 software would just transcode the lossless audio to 5.1 DD and call it a day. Also, I wish the part of the Blu-ray spec was to require a DD track on the disc along with the lossless format.
Case in point. Transformers on Blu-ray only has a TrueHD track on the disc. My HTPC cannot playback the audio in anything but stereo because of the limitations listed in this article.
The idiotic thing about this situation is even if I bought a receiver which supported TrueHD, there is no way for me to get any kind of 5.1/7.1 signal to the receiver due to the DRM implementation, lack of hardware support on the PC side, and lack of software transcoding in any commercially available playback software. Sure my PS3 can do the transcoding and I can watch Transformers with TrueHD downsampled to 5.1 DD, but my HTPC has a much better quality picture due to GPU acceleration magic. Not to mention my HTPC is a nice Blu-ray jukebox (thank you AnyDVD and yes I own the original discs), which can start the movie directly at the beginning of the movie (thank you again AnyDVD) without the ironic "don't steal our content public service message" or any previews (which are outdated and unwanted within 6months anyway and are a waste of my time). Reply
michal1980 - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linki'm sorry, can you please explain to me how your htpc has a better picture then the ps3?
and please make up better bs then 'gpu acceleration', becasue that is just 'bs'. The ps3 is one of the better blu-ray players on the market, and I have never seen a review mention any problems with its picture quality.
GPU acceleration is required when your CPU is too weak to playback the video, if system a is able to decode the video file, and system b is also able to, but one uses a cpu and one a gpu, then unless there is some post processing (ie changing of the final output after decoding), the picture will look the same.
also, if your reciver can play back true-hd, or dts-ma, then it can playback LPCM. and you know what the difference in sound quality between the 2 is? nearly zero. All that happens is that in the 1st case your receiver decodes the file, while in the 2nd your pc does. Reply
fuzz - Monday, September 22, 2008 - linkwell theres probably ZERO difference between htpc and ps3 when it comes to hddvd/bd, but for playing back standard dvd the htpc wins hands down (thanks to the maturity of the technology)
you can get around pretty much all the quality-reduction features hollywood could come up with. Reply
erple2 - Monday, October 06, 2008 - linkMaturity of what technology? The tech used in the PS3 for all of that is what boils down to clever software decoding. The question is simply whether the hardware on the PS3 is capable of doing all of the clever algorithmic magic to make the DVD output look good. Some "high end" (read expensive) systems do that, but they also can't put large General Purpose Processors in their components, so they use embedded systems (which are VERY inexpensive) to do the crunch work on those DVD upscale algorithms. I think that the PS3 is more than capable of doing it in software (particularly given it's nVidia G70 based GPU, plus the Cell Processor). Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkActually I believe both TrueHD and DTS-HD MA include the lossy DD/DTS tracks as a part of their spec. If you can't decode the lossless version, it should default to the lossy version. This is how it works on CE devices but admittedly I haven't played with it enough on the PC side.
Sigh, there's so much work to be done here :)
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jnmfox - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkTrue, on the PS3 you have to make sure you have LPCM selected as your output, but if the original poster has it hooked up properly than he should be getting the lossless version.
That is also part of the problem, so many blasted formats. I understand what they are and why we have them but to the un-Home Theater educated, i.e. my parents, it is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
This is a time when the movie industry should be trying to make things simpler instead it is just getting more and more complicated and as we can see from the posts it turns a lot of people off. A lot of people that may have been paying customers.
There is a lot of work to be done and it is sad we are so far away. Reply
jnmfox - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkObviously I don't know your set-up but if you have your PS3 set to transcode the audio to LPCM and have it hooked up to your AVR via HDMI then you should be getting a lossless audio track not a downsampled DD signal.
"but my HTPC has a much better quality picture due to GPU acceleration magic"
Are you talking about SD-DVD PQ or Blu-ray PQ?
The Blu-ray jukebox would be nice. Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkThis is 2000 all over again: trying to find a sound card that actually passed on a DD signal via spdif with a dvd software program that properly talked to said sound card was a PITA. Then VLC came out and ended all the BS with the a52 codec and it being a free program. I remember buying a $20 sound card and finally having the right WinDVD to work with DD, even if it was the analog ports. What sucks is they wanted $60 for the same stupid program separately.
Of course, why bother using cyberlink and paying them $$$ for the program (the version bundled with blue ray drives is crippled) when you can buy... Reply
fri2219 - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI fail to see what problem 8 channel audio solves, aside from "how do audio vendors sell more equipment?".
Human brains are lousy sound locators, this just isn't needed- 6 channel audio is pushing it as it is.
When you factor in the fact that most people in the G8 under 40 have damaged their hearing, it's even nuttier. Reply
sxr7171 - Monday, September 22, 2008 - linkSeriously, just like the megapixel race the number of channels race is simply moronic. Reply
fuzz - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - linkdon't know if there's any racing going on. i don't think i've got a single movie (regardless of format) that does anything over 5.1ch.. Reply
nilepez - Sunday, September 21, 2008 - linkI'm not sure about 7.1 (since virtually nothing is encoded at 7.1), but 6.1 provides a rear center, which can help with pans for people who aren't in the center of the room. 7.1 does the same thing, in theory, but I don't htink there's much advantage unless the movie is encoded that way.
I"m actually a bit surprised that BD movies aren't encoded in 6.1 or 7.1 Reply
fuzz - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linktrue where audio is concerned, thats why nobody has made this a priority.. the point though is not that 8ch 24/192 is so much better than 6ch 16/48, rather that these ineffective and costly practices are in place when they shouldnt be..
the fidelity argument is also largely true of HD video.. a waste of time if you don't own a HD projector and view on a 100" screen. you won't see sh*t-all difference between your DVD and a HD movie on a 32" display if you're sitting further than a meter away.
well okay you might if you *really* pay attention but then you'd be missing the movie ;) Reply
npp - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkYou couldn't be more right.
But people like big numers - well, 7.1 can't be worse than 5.1, right, just like megapixels, horse power, cores, and everything else.
This aside, I find the "bit perfect" hype to be the next stupid thing. In my eyes, it's simply that most people don't want to admit that their ears and brain are imperfect, and can be fooled (by means of frequency masking). The word "lossy" seems to be a bad one, but I've heard plenty of "lossy" sound that was better than studio-mastered CD-s... And a lot, yes I mean A LOT of people can't hear any difference between properly compressed and uncompressed tracks at all... And yes, human hearing degrades rapidly with time, to a point when even a 10 Khz sound can't be heard - but you can rest assured that you have all your frequencies up to 48 Khz untouched, it's lossless.
You just have to swallow your ego to admit this, and there are plenty of people who aren't prepared to do it. You have the guys at stereophile.com which can hear not only differences between cables, but also between their wall sockets, ladies and gentlemen. A separate power line gave an amplifier something like more vivid and punching sound, for example.
I don't know who is crazy in this case but I think that people got what they needed long time ago and anything beyound that (read: all the 24bit/192Khz, 7.1, etc. stuff) provokes more imaginative than objective, quantitative effects... And of course you'll hear a difference if you've paid an amount enough to feed a small african village just for equipment, you have to. Reply
plonk420 - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkyou could rip the disc with the slightly expensive AnyDVD HD and play it with Media Player Classic... Reply
sprockkets - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI've used mplayer on windows. Even without any acceleration, seems to play it very well. VLC is my next choice.
Oh, we are talking about the 12GB video files here. Reply
jnmfox - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkPC hardware and Home Theater are 1a and 1b for my personal interests. Your article was well written (like almost everything on anandtech), basic enough to understand but detailed enough to give the needed information.
I have my PC hooked up to my HT and considered getting a Blu-ray drive in my PC. But after looking into it I read about the problem you are describing. I ended up getting a PS3, I'm glad I did so I don't have to worry about all this junk (don't you love the fandangled content protection schemes they come up with ;)). Reply
Demon-Xanth - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkIt seems that they were so gung ho on protecting their own "content" that they completely left their own customers out in the cold. Rather than giving the customers something easy to use and setup, they proceeded to require manufacturers to include numerous other (futile) hoops to jump through so someone that bought the movie can enjoy it.
Hollywood, the problem isn't your paying customers. Quit taking pot shots at them.
With the rise in HTPCs and that sort of thing the studios should've worked WITH manufacturers to create a solution, even if it's a low cost standalone HDMI output card (a la DVD decoder cards), to support BluRay and HD-DVD on day one. Reply
kymas - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkThis is exactly the problem: "Hollywood, the problem isn't your paying customers. Quit taking pot shots at them."
People buying Blueray hardware or movies are paying to have their rights taken away and they are paying more for it due to the increased hardware and software cost to make these ridiculous protection schemes work. This is another example of content owners implementing a protection system that is at best a minor annoyance to the people actually stealing the content but is a significant detriment to their paying customers. Systems like this encourage paying customers to find alternative methods of acquiring the content they want or to just do with out.
I have been a HTPC enthusiast for about four years, which was shortly after I purchased an HD TV. I love the flexibility and convenience the HTPC allows and I would also love to be able to have HD content on my HTPC. Unfortunately, even if I were willing to support Blueray (obviously I am not :) it is completely unsupported by the open source software I use and it is unlikely it ever will be. As far as I know there is no software currently available that would allow a Blueray movie to be transferred to a media server for play back on a HTPC or other computer/device. At this point my only hope for legally purchasing HD content is through Internet distribution, hopefully in the near future someone will provide consumer friendly HD content online or I will have to sell or scrape some expensive but useless equipment.
Sorry for the rant but this stuff really irks me! Reply
sxr7171 - Monday, September 22, 2008 - linkIf you chose an open source OS for your computing needs then I suppose Blu-Ray on PC is not in the cards for you. Have fun with your downloads. Reply
Cincybeck - Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - linkI'm pretty sure the open source program he's talking about is a DVD server/client software. That allows the DVDs to be ripped and stored on the server. This allows his HTPC to act as the client and seamlessly access his whole movie collection with out ever touching an actual disc. Just point and click. Or in case of some of the more advance setups I seen. Where there's an interface which shows a screen full of the DVD covers combined with a touch screen. All you have to do is flip threw the movies then press on the DVD cover and the movie automaticly begins to play. With out ever having to touch a mouse or keyboard. Reply
nilepez - Sunday, September 21, 2008 - linkGive me a break. Increased h/w costs? Blu-Ray drives are CHEAPER than DVDs were at this point in the the DVD life cycle. If you'd owned DVDs in 1997-1999, you'd know that.
Onkyo's THX-Ultra Certified 905 receiver has been available for as little as $550.00, and it comes with more bells and whistles than 99% of the consumers will ever use.
Software is a bit more, but prices will fall, as will the h/w, though given that prices are as low as $230 for a player, it's hard to understand why you're complaining about price....unless, of course, you didn't get into dvd until 2000-2001 when prices were much lower.
My first DVD player (the dvd-414) was around 300.00 (and that was about as cheap as you could get in Q1 99).
Here we are at roughly the same period with Blu Ray, and prices are at least 25% lower. Adjust for inflation, and the price of this tech is dramatically cheaper.
Finally, it's really annoying when people pretend that DVD and VHS didn't have copy protection. The vast majority of people didn't have a way to copy video tapes and, until Dvd John wrote DeCSS, they couldn't copy DVDs.
Conclusion: The ridiculous schemes ain't costing us anything. To take advanatage of blu ray, you'd have to buy a new receiver and drive, and both are available at prices that cheap compared to what they would have cost 2 years into the DVD life cycle.
As for you linux based HTPC, AFAIK, there's no licensed software for playing DVDs on Linux either....that's why, in theory, DeCSS was written (which is illegal if you're in the U.S.)
As for online HD, it'll happen in 10 or 20 years. Unless you have FTTH, you don't have enough bandwidth. Even if you have the bandwidth, it's unlikely that the place that sells the movie is going to have the bandwidth to fill your 40-50mb/s pipe.
What you'll get is highly compressed video that isn't as good as blu ray. Inferior video and audio, inconvenient download times and you still have all the DRM you profess to hate. Sounds like a winner to me. Reply
kymas - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - linkI am afraid you have missed the point of the article and my comments which is HTPC's. I am well aware that CE Blu-Ray drives/players are cheaper than DVD drives/players were at this point in their life cycles ... I paid just shy of $800.00 for my first DVD player. It cost PC hardware manufactures more to produce a product that supports the "Security Features" of Blu-Ray because they have to add additional components to their hardware for that support and they have to pay to have their hardware certified before they will be granted the keys required for Blu-Ray playback. This situations is virtually the same for software developers as they need to add additional code to support the Blu-Ray security and pay for the certification process to receive the keys.
I never said VHS or DVD did not have copy protection. I indicated that the security features of Blu-Ray prevent me from exercising my rights as a consumer and does very little to prevent the thefts it was intended to stop. At the time I wrote my previous comments I was unaware of the AnyHDDVD (sp?) program but like DeCSS this program is likely illegal in the US. It is very sad that people have to resort to using illegal tools in order to exercise their rights.
As for your comments about online HD content, you are obviously unaware of upcoming transport technologies. You will be able to download Blu-Ray quality HD content to your mobile phone in reasonable times in less than 10 years probably closer to 5 years and wired technologies will be even better. You are correct that, at least for the near future, the bottle neck will move to the provider. Reply
sxr7171 - Monday, September 22, 2008 - linkThank you. For once, someone who knows what he's talking about. The cost of admission at launch was half of DVD at $600 -> PS3 vs. $1200 -> Sony DVP-S7000 DVD Player in 1997.
We won't be ready for true HD downloads for at least 5 years. Reply
Bull Dog - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkActually you do have a solution. Get AnyDVD HD. Then use IMG Burn to create (DRM Free!) *.iso files of your HD movies. Lastly, use Daemon Tools to mount your *.iso file and enjoy you HD movie (with your HD-DVD/Blu-Ray movie player of choice).
I don't own any Blu-Ray hardware so I can't vouch for it. I've done this in both Windows XP Pro, and Windows XP Pro x64 with HD-DVD movies. Reply
JarredWalton - Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - linkI'm with you on this... and the same goes for games with DRM. (Hello Spore! Heaven forbid we install on more than three PCs.... But if I use a pirated version, I can install as many times as I want.) I'm not enough of a home theater enthusiast for it to really matter, but I know I won't be buying any more Blu-ray movies for quite some time. I've got my test disc; that's all I need. Reply


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NVIDIA Introduces dual Cortex A9 based Tegra 2by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/7/2010 2:00 PM EST
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T2k - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - linkhttp://www.slashgear.com/imagination-technologies-...">http://www.slashgear.com/imagination-te...gx545-to...
Nvidia has nothing against Imagination's new PowerVR chip, period.
Anand is licking the wrong @ss again. Reply
bnolsen - Monday, January 11, 2010 - linkThat pat is bothersome...the core general purpose cpu being only 10% of the transistors in the package. Makes me wonder if there isn't some better way to design cpus and socs in general. Reply
techadd - Monday, January 11, 2010 - linkMost of the job is now done on specialized processors. Get used to it. The general purpose CPUs are going to matter less and less. They are slow for hard tasks and will be giving way to special gear like video and graphics processors. Reply
jconan - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkis the TEGRA2 CUDA compliant as others have mentioned? Reply
techadd - Sunday, January 10, 2010 - linkI doubt it. That would draw more power. It's good as it is, but I have hopes for future Tegras Reply
jconan - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkis the TEGRA2 CUDA compliant as others have mentioned? Reply
Mike1111 - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - linkAnand, Imagination has their own dedicated HD video decode (VXD) and encode (VXE) processors, just like Nvidia. They offer comparable features (1080p h.264 high profile decode and encode) in a low power envelope. This has nothing to do with the GPU (SGX vs. Nvidia's 2D/3D graphics processor).
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Plus the iPhone3GS officially supports not only 480p but (720x)576p anamorphic (PAL DVD resolution) with high bitrates (if you go too high you just have to manually restrict your encoder to h.264 level 3.0 or iTunes won't transfer the file). Unofficially the iPhone 3GS supports even 1080p, you just have to know which h.264 options to tweak and how to transfer the file. So the problem with 1080p decode is Apple, not the Samsung SoC. Of course that's nothing compared to the announced Tegra2 SKU, but that's no surprise since it's newer and aimed at tablets/smartbooks etc. Reply
thebeastie - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkGood article this one, why? Because I had no idea Nvidia were working on a good SoC technology, I simply ignored just about ANYTHING with the word Tegra on it think it was just some power sucking first gut shot thing created by nvidia as a side show.
I was so ultra wrong! This looks truly impressive.
vol7ron - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkAnand,
You certainly hyped the A9 up, maybe a little too much. I agree with you and everything, but the repetition of the Cortex A9 support kind of made me a little sick. (please read on)
Personally, I'm happy if there are any improvements, but this still isn't where it should be. What I would like to know, though, is if you plan on doing any performance testing on phone devices in the future?
I believe smartphones/PDAs/pocket pcs - whatever you want to call them - are reaching that last step of maturity and have enough features and variance that they are worthy of testing.
I even started thinking, "should I pay to upgrade my phone?" I have 1 1/2 years left on my contract! Had this been one of my previous, non-touch devices, I would have gladly saved money and waited 'til even after my contract expired. But now, I started thinking that I'm using my phone a lot more than my desktop - the $/time-used would say it'd be a better buy.
Please start doing some in-depth analysis and, if you can, please push the phone manufacturers to include pico-projectors / good external speakers. I for one use my phone to watch my workout videos, it'd be nice just to set it down or let others view things at the same time.
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QChronoD - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkDear Santa,
I plan to be very good this year, so please start your elves working on a new phone running Android on a Tegra2 with a 4.5" OLED screen. Reply
strikeback03 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThat would be a gigantic phone. I'd personally like to see something with this kind of processing power (minus the video acceleration) and small enough to use something like a 2.5-3" screen Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkon a smart phone, or a mp3 player . . . hmm am I missing something here ? Is this absolutely necessary ? Personally, I don't think so.
Also comparing ARM with an Atom processor is like comparing apples to oranges isn't it ? One is x86, the other is not.
Personally, I would be more interested in seeing how viable nVidias Tegra 2 would be used in other SoC embedded applications, or if nVidia will make derivatives that are more suitable for other than smartphone / mp3 player applications. Based just on the ARM technology, I would have to say these are going to be well suited for any low power application provided they perform well. Reply
FaaR - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link1080P decode support on a thing like this is... Well, virtually useless, really.
When it's been shown that most people can't see the difference between blu-ray video and regular 'ol DVDs even on big-screen TVs, and the vast majority of people just don't see the point of HD video, then what the hell are we going to use this thing for? Watch BR rips on a 3" LCD screen, no I don't think so.
Plug it in to your big screen TV in the living room? Please. Don't you have a stationary player for that?
I've no idea who exactly this product is intended for.
And the dual A9 cores, well, I'm sure they're great - compared to whatever came before them anyway, but dual A9 cores, quad A9 cores or a quadrillion A9 cores doesn't really matter as long as they don't run any really useful software and THEY DON'T. As long as a portable isn't x86 compatible it'll never be more than a toy. Yeah sure, you can "do stuff" with an Iphone or whatever, but it's still just toy apps and it will stay that way until x86 becomes a realistic alternative in the mobile marketspace. Atom is a joke right now, it's slow AND power hungry. Maybe in another 5 years, who knows... Reply
Visual - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkit is nice if the device can decode the video in real time, even if it doesn't show it in its full resolution. then you don't need to re-encode stuff specially for the device, if size isn't a constraint - like if you are watching it from a network share.
but the main advantage of tegra 2 isn't just some stupid video decode. its all-round general purpose cpu performance, and 3d acceleration, at very low power usage. the modular design allows it to use as little power as the current usage pattern of the device requires so it will make fantastic handheld game console/phone/media player hybrids
and you whining that there aren't useful apps is just stupid. x86 isn't the world, you know - properly developed apps can be ported to anything, and once the platform is in people's hands, the apps will be too.
FlyTexas - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkHuh?
What are you smoking???
If you can't tell the very obvious difference between Blu-Ray and DVD video on a large 1080P LCD, then you're blind...
None of that makes your other point invalid, 1080P isn't needed for a 4" screen, but it is nice that it can do it. Reply
GeorgeH - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkLooking at that reference board it doesn't appear that it would be all that difficult to make a mini-ITX Atom alternative. You'd have to run Linux on it, but for an HTPC, NAS, or other low power single-purpose application spending $100+ on a fully featured Windows license is a little bit silly anyway.
If it is faster than Atom (and better at HTPC-centric video tasks) and can be had for much less than an i3 system (especially if i3 can't be passively cooled) I'd think NVIDIA would be jumping at the chance to show Intel up a bit. Even if the actual marketshare and economic gains were minimal, it seems to me that the "mindshare" gains could be huge. Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkPersonally, I do not see it happening. There is a reason why companies like SGI moved from RISC to x86 hardware. However, with that said ther is simply no reason why these SoCs could not be used in an external NAS / SAN system with the right software to back it up. x86 has the advantage of running desktop classed Windows, even if only for gaming, which is a larger market than most think.
Still, as a novice embedded designer, I see lots of potential in Tegra 2, but a lot of it would be unnecessary for my, and possibly others purposes. Smart phone, and MP3 players, sure, but not for a lot of other things. Perhaps if the graphics core were CUDA compliant and offered good number crunching performance . . . Reply
yyrkoon - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkPersonally, I do not see it happening. There is a reason why companies like SGI moved from RISC to x86 hardware. However, with that said ther is simply no reason why these SoCs could not be used in an external NAS / SAN system with the right software to back it up. x86 has the advantage of running desktop classed Windows, even if only for gaming, which is a larger market than most think.
Still, as a novice embedded designer, I see lots of potential in Tegra 2, but a lot of it would be unnecessary for my, and possibly others purposes. Smart phone, and MP3 players, sure, but not for a lot of other things. Perhaps if the graphics core were CUDA compliant and offered good number crunching performance . . . Reply
altarity - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkLOL... I seriously didn't know this when I posted earlier:
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sprockkets - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkNow if only it wasn't shaped so weird...
Is that really the final look? Reply
altarity - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkGuess it's a love hate situation. I kinda like the idea of the boxee being subsumed by my bedroom dresser.... Reply
sprockkets - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkIt would just take up too much space in an a/v cabinet. Reply
altarity - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkMaybe that's what the Boxee Box will be running.... Reply
ET - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkQuake 3 yet again. Yawn. I know it's probably the only 3D game available, but I'm still waiting to see WoW and Sims 3 running on a Tegra. Then I'll know the PC is dead. Reply
jconan - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkbut with the new DS2 or whatever it will be called, there will be next gen 3d games... Reply
Fox5 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkIt's rather sad, Quake 3 has been used to demo 3d pda/phone/other tiny device capabilities since the MBX Lite.
Seriously, when will phones/mini-computers finally move beyond the level of dreamcast? Reply
jensend - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkYou won't see WoW and Sims running on a Tegra for a good long while, as those are DirectX based and thus stuck with Windows and x86. Q3 keeps getting shown off on mobile because it uses OpenGL and its code is open so people don't have to do messy licensing stuff to be able to port it to other architectures. Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkSo how does WoW run on OSX since it has no DirectX?
From what I understand taking DirectX and making it OpenGL or equiv. isn't that hard. There just has to be a compelling reason to do it (ie money). Reply
DLeRium - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkx86 buddy. x86. You obviously don't know what that means. Reply
casmith - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkMinimum: PowerPC G5 1.6 GHz or Intel Core Duo processor
What does x86 have to do with it, again? Reply
sprockkets - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkIt's a loser called DLeRium who thinks I don't know the diff btw x86 and PPC or ARM.
Perhaps he doesn't know I compile code from scratch all the time for Linux and most of that code easily compiles on multiple archs. That doesn't mean its automatic to go from x86 to ARM, but it isn't an insurmountable hurdle either. Reply
sprockkets - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkHasn't stopped Doom or Quake 3 from arriving on the iphone, has it? Reply
SilthDraeth - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkWoW runs in OpenGL as well. Reply
rennya - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkAnd that's why Quake 3 is used in the demo. They are easily portable, unlike WoW or Sims games.
Now if we have WoW or Sims games on iPhone you may have a point. Reply
sprockkets - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkWoW is a ways off perhaps, but again, my original point was it is on OSX, which doesn't have DirectX. The previous poster was going on about x86 vs. ARM limitations.
UT2004 had DirectX and OpenGL versions.
For that matter, I believe the real question is, why would you want to game on a 3.7-5 inch screen? Even if you used video out, you would then end up hooking up some form of controller, and you'd be back to square one where you were with a computer.
But hey, surprise me. Boxee has the Tegra2 in it. Linux is a common denominator in phones and with ARM and OpenGL ES. Reply
Genx87 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkHow big at Nintendo DS screens? Those seem to sell at a clip higher than the stand alone consoles. Reply
puffpio - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkMy next smartphone better have this...as well as my future HTPC/NASbox/fileserver/DNLA server/torrentbox all in one device thingy Reply
puffpio - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkand said smartphone needs hdmi out to drive a 1080p display Reply
Goty - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkI can find solutions that perform "well enough" until NVIDIA decides to stop being one of the most underhanded and disrespectful companies I can think of. Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - link" But rest assured that if you're buying a smartphone in 2010, it's not Snapdragon that you want but something based on Cortex A9"
LOL, now we are basing our smartphone purchases like we did 10 years ago with computers?
OK, let's wait for Tegra2 so we can watch an 8-12GB pirated 1920x800 HDx264 hi profile movie on an 800x480 screen with headphones or even worse, a 2 inch tinny speaker even though it has DTS audio. LOL. Reply
Genx87 - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkThe fusion of the phone and entertainment is heading towards gaming on our phones. At the end of the day it is very possible we ditch laptops and home computers for a phone that does it all. Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkYou sure did beat the crap out of that strawman!
I'll take a Tegra for playing a decent looking 3D game on a smartphone thank you very much! Reply
sprockkets - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThey already exist and are better than what nVidia offers, thank YOU very much!!! Reply
tomaccogoats - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkThough this article has me wondering if Nvidia has enough ppl to spread around, I honestly don't know. If they have to same manpower as ati (once again i have absolutely no clue) then wouldn't ati start gaining the upper hand in terms of desktop graphic solutions? Reply
Spoelie - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkNVIDIA is a much larger company than ATi was before AMD's acquisition, something to the tune of over double the engineers (in 2006...)
You can't really compare the 2 at this moment anymore though Reply
Taft12 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkEnough people to spread around? WTF are you talking about? Companies have multiple core competencies and engineers don't get moved from desktop graphics projects to Tegra.
When they purchased PortalPlayer in 2007 for $350M, what they were buying was not just IP, but SoC expertise of the employees that surely was/is a huge part of this product. Reply
janiszalitis - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkWhere have you been?
ATI is totally blasting Nvidia out of desktop graphics market!
If NVidia wants to retain reasonable share there, they have to release something good sometime soon. Reply
tomaccogoats - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkI just meant that given the same amount of manpower at each company, nvidia seems to spreading their business to more markets than ati, which seems to be focusing more on desktop solutions Reply
Boushh - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkDesktop graphics are not that important any more. Already more than 50% of the market is based on laptops. And this will only grow.
What Nvidia is doing is finding other markets it can make products for. Because building a company on a single product line is a problem if that market disappears.
Nvidia is hoping that products like the Tegra and Tesla will eventualy take over the profit they previously got from desktop graphics.
And that's not to late. Already CPU's are here (Westmere) that have on die GPU's. That will be intergrated GPU's in a year or so. That means that Intel can (and AMD when they get there) provide more than 90% of the needs for graphics on PCs or laptops. That leaves only a nice market for powerfull graphics.
So there will be a market for GPUs in the future. But the real money will be in the netbook, tablet and smartphone market. Reply
tomaccogoats - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkIf it means longer battery life than i'm a happy camper :) Reply
prashy21 - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkAnand,
Do you think this can be used in iSlate(Apple Tablet)..... ?
Doormat - Thursday, January 07, 2010 - linkUnlikely because Apple owns PA Semi and would presumably have them design the chip in the tablet. Plus there is the rumor that Apple and Nvidia don't get along after the whole GF 8000-series GPU problems. And Apple would have to rely on someone else's product cycle.
So no. Its very unlikely. Which is unfortunate because the Tegra 2 would be a perfect fit for the Apple tablet - it has the audio and video toolkit, the dual ARM CPUs and a great GPU for OpenGL ES. Reply
Griswold - Saturday, January 09, 2010 - link"And Apple would have to rely on someone else's product cycle."
You mean, just like they do with just about every other product they sell? Reply
sviola - Friday, January 08, 2010 - linkBut we might see this in MS Courier tablet (Afterall, they´re already a Nvidia partner). Reply
profquatermass - Sunday, August 15, 2010 - linkAs an ageing Acorn Fanboy, It's nice to see the ARM chip finally starting to take over the computer world...
You must be proud Sophie! :-) Reply


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A few weeks ago, I came across this amazing image fromWhitewall and Co. I instantly fell in love with their stencils, but the prices were a little too high for my thrifty core. So, I've let it "marinate" for a few weeks, and I have come up with a thrifty solution! Are you ready!?!?
Step 1: Go to Office Max or Staples and get some clear folders like the ones in this picture below. (These folders cost me 1.49 each and I used 2 of them). You will also need a narrow sharpie marker, clear tape, and an exact-o-knife.
Step 2: Cut the folders and tape them together. If you notice on the Whitewall and Co. website, most of their stencils are 24 inches x 24 inches.
Tape the two folders together to create a large enough area for your stencil.
Step 3: Find an image that you like for your stencil and have it printed large enough to trace. I found this one online, and then I stretched it to mimic the Whitewall image above. I wanted to duplicate a similar look. I took it to the local printing store and they blew it up for me for 99 cents.
Step 4: Trace your image on to your plastic folders with your narrow sharpie. Just place the image below your plastic folder and you'll be able to trace it quickly.
This is what it will look like once you have the image traced.
Step 5: With an exact-o-knife, cut out the image. This took me a few days. You have to be extremely careful when you are cutting out the image because if you go too fast, then you will cut through the intricate details and ruin your stencil. I have to admit…this part was frustrating. Side note: I found out AFTER I was done with this portion that Robert's Crafts has STENCIL CUTTER tools. It is a heated tool that melts the plastic material as you cut. I MIGHT have splurged and bought me one. (WITH A 50% off coupon of course!) So, stencils will be much easier to make in the future. I think the tool came to $17.00 after the coupon.
Here is when the FUN begins! Here is the "before" picture of the wall that this stencil was designed for. Don't mind my son watching iCarly. 😉
Step 6: IMPORTANT: Tape the stencil in place AND spray the back of the stencil with spray adhesive so that it sticks to the wall. Make sure you measure your wall before you begin to ensure that your stencil is in the right place.
I used stencil paint because it is much easier to use. It is drier than normal paint, and it is much easier to work with because it doesn't run beneath the stencil.
Step 7: With a horizontal motion using a stencil brush and stencil paint, start stenciling your paint on.
What a hottie! I have to admit, once the creative part is over, my hubby usually steps in to help me finish my projects. He has painted most of this wall.
Getting closer!
One challenge that we ran into was that Robert's Crafts ran out of orange stencil paint, and they are discontinuing the brand that I bought. So, unfortunately the wall isn't quite done yet. So, stay tuned for the big reveal in a few days. (I had to send my brother to the Robert's Crafts in Provo hunting for some more paint). I couldn't wait to show you…I'm impatient.
UPDATE 3/14/10: Thank you to my brother Courtney for going to Robert's Crafts and mailing me more orange stencil paint! Here she is all complete!
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Secular Student Alliance affiliates promote the ideals of scientific and critical inquiry, democracy, secularism and human-based ethics. We accomplish this through five areas of focus: education, service, activism, community and cooperation.
Our goals are to:
- Educate ourselves and our communities about religion and nontheism
- Contribute to society through community service
- Participate in our government through activism
- Build a community for nontheists at Shepherd University
- Cooperate with other groups of both similar and dissimilar viewpoints to foster understanding and communication.


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