All I gotta say is thank god for ATI pulling through and having a superior HD hardware accelerator that works flawlessly in XP. NVIDIA's PureVideo was the one bullet point for dipping your wick in Vista. No more!
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:56:07 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] HDTV as PC monitor > > Ah. Understand now. Sorry for the confusion. > > Imagine people's surprise when they want to play HD movies on their > top-end PC, only to be told they 1) must install vista 2) have to buy > a new monitor that is HDCP compliant and 3) must buy a new video card > that supports HDCP. And they wonder why HD movies haven't taken off > yet. > > And in total agreement with the Vista issue. One of the reasons > people are having trouble with it and it gobbles so many resources is > that they had to do a total re-write of the entire A/V subsystem. > This rewrite was to comply with the ever increasing DRM and content > protection measures to placate the Hollywood crowd. > > They have billed DX10 as the "bestest thing EVER!!!" but so far gamers > are not seeing it. From what I have heard Crysis looks just as good > under XP as under Vista and runs 10-15% faster on XP. _________________________________________________________________ Don't get caught with egg on your face. Play Chicktionary! http://club.live.com/chicktionary.aspx?icid=chick_wlhmtextlink1_dec
