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The Revolution Will Not be Televised - HD Video on PC : Introduction

07:40 - Wednesday 5 September 2007 by Matthieu Lamelot
Source: Tom's hardware UK – Keywords: HDTV, Nvidia, ATI
Categories: Graphics

Introduction

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HD is an acronym that’s become so popular since a little more than a year ago that we could almost forget what it stands for : High Definition. Two letters which promise you an even greater home-cinema experience than before in the time of the now obsolete DVD. But is it so simple to benefit from HD?

No. You actually must spend an unreasonable sum on a compatible flat screen television and media suite. And where are PCs in all this? For a long time, they couldn’t face up to HD DVD or Blu-ray discs; they’re now back in the HD good books thanks to new generation Geforce 8 and Radeon HD 2000 graphic cards. We wanted to know what was what for ourselves, so we tested both the video Nvidia PureVideo HD and ATI Avivo HD. Between the ATI and Nvidia, which has the best performance? The best quality? Are those new graphics cards enough to transform an ageing system into the latest HD box? The answer is in the following pages… Nvidia Purevideo


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MrRimmer 06/09/2007 04:45
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I think it would be a really good idea to get this article edited by a native English speaker.
Other than that, very timely as am at the start of the upgrade cycle and find myself having to buy a PCI-E graphics card.
To be fair, the Radeon 2400 should have been compared against a 8400GS, as they are the same price, and any question about drivers affecting performance could have been answered by running the 2600 on the same drver as the 2400.

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