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TV Quality vs. PC Quality
kurandoinu:
--- Quote from: xtras on August 22, 2009, 01:54:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Takeshi on August 22, 2009, 01:29:33 PM ---TV quality ftw.
I use a VGA cabel and a sound cabel to connect my computer to the TV, and I WAS able to play emulators (PS1) on the TV, however, since I upgraded my ATI drivers it doesn't work, now, but the flicker that's vivisble when I play anime is gone.
I don't get why people want the trouble with burning to DVDs and then watching through DVD players.
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Unless you have a pretty high end graphics card, you will not get the same results if you connected your computer to the tv as if you connected a Blu-Ray player to the TV. Most graphics cards these days focus on the gaming side of things, while the GPU's in the Blu-Ray players focus on the upscaling to 1080p. (At least this was what I read in other forums)
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But he didn't say why do people go to the trouble of burning blu-rays off, he said DVDs. I can't see where blu ray discs come into that at all.
Xtras:
--- Quote from: kurandoinu on August 22, 2009, 04:47:46 PM ---But he didn't say why do people go to the trouble of burning blu-rays off, he said DVDs. I can't see where blu ray discs come into that at all.
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I didn't say Blu-Ray discs, I said blu-ray players. If you put a DVD in a good blu-ray player (or even in some of the newer high-tech DVD players) it will upscale it beyond the capability of most graphics cards that you put in your computer. (again, I haven't tried it but that is what I have read in multiple places)
kurandoinu:
Ah, now that makes more sense. I have a DVD player that upscales, and it does a pretty good job for something that I bought from a second hand shop.
Lupin:
--- Quote from: xtras on August 22, 2009, 01:54:33 PM ---Most graphics cards these days focus on the gaming side of things, while the GPU's in the Blu-Ray players focus on the upscaling to 1080p. (At least this was what I read in other forums)
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It's not that graphics cards nowadays focus on gaming. Rather, gaming gets more attention when reviewing video cards because it strains the cards more than decoding. Some low-end and mid-range video cards are as capable as decoding video as those high end cards.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: xtras on August 22, 2009, 01:54:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: Takeshi on August 22, 2009, 01:29:33 PM ---TV quality ftw.
I use a VGA cabel and a sound cabel to connect my computer to the TV, and I WAS able to play emulators (PS1) on the TV, however, since I upgraded my ATI drivers it doesn't work, now, but the flicker that's vivisble when I play anime is gone.
I don't get why people want the trouble with burning to DVDs and then watching through DVD players.
--- End quote ---
Unless you have a pretty high end graphics card, you will not get the same results if you connected your computer to the tv as if you connected a Blu-Ray player to the TV. Most graphics cards these days focus on the gaming side of things, while the GPU's in the Blu-Ray players focus on the upscaling to 1080p. (At least this was what I read in other forums)
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Actually computers CAN do a better job at that. there are many upscaling algorithms to choose from, and the analog outputs of most desktop video cards are excellent.
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