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Offline pparker

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Re: TV Quality vs. PC Quality
« Reply #40 on: August 23, 2009, 11:19:44 AM »
Quote from: Lupin on August 22, 2009, 05:20:38 PM
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)
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.
ATI(AMD) has had focus on the video market for some time, and the Radeon HD 4870 card I bought is directly for that market while fully supporting gaming as well.  With 1GB of memory and direct HDMI output, and with all audio/video codecs licensed (DTS, THX, etc), you really have more technology and audio/video crunching bandwidth available on that card than in a dedicated player (plus with being able to play any A/V codec you want via PC).  Intel recently partnered with Nvidia, so you can expect to see more competition for ATI/AMD in this space.  But yes, the technology is already there.  Most agree that the PS3, a gaming platform, is the best standalone player for upscaling/BD.  A high percentage of PS3's were sold just as BD players. 
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« Reply #41 on: August 23, 2009, 01:05:42 PM »
 ^ proof that marketing bombardment works.
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« Reply #42 on: August 23, 2009, 02:56:39 PM »
To what extent is playback on a PC connected to a 1080p monitor dependent on the blu-ray optical drive? I have seen them from between 70$ and 200$ and I want to know how much of a difference it makes?
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Offline bloody000

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« Reply #43 on: August 23, 2009, 03:56:29 PM »
The drive's job is to read the disc properly(this part is important because you could run into horrible drives, so read reviews), it does not care what you do with the data.
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Re: TV Quality vs. PC Quality
« Reply #44 on: August 23, 2009, 03:57:48 PM »
You can't play BDs in HD (correct me if I'm wrong) if your monitor, and video card are not HDCP compliant.

You may have a HDCP compliant monitor but if your video card doesn't then you can't play them.
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« Reply #45 on: August 23, 2009, 05:50:04 PM »
Quote from: Lupin on August 23, 2009, 03:57:48 PM
You can't play BDs in HD (correct me if I'm wrong) if your monitor, and video card are not HDCP compliant.

You may have a HDCP compliant monitor but if your video card doesn't then you can't play them.
I have the necessary graphics card (radeon 4770, yes the new model that smokes the 9800gt with only 80 watts). But my blu-ray drive is pretty lousy (I think I picked it refurbished for 70 bucks). It works fine when I am playing games and watching movies but I haven't tried it on a big screen (only the 22" computer monitor I have). Would it make a difference in quality if I improved the drive, or would the money be better spent on an improved GPU.
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Offline bloody000

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« Reply #46 on: August 23, 2009, 06:00:21 PM »
Why would it matter if it's reading discs just fine?
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Re: TV Quality vs. PC Quality
« Reply #47 on: August 24, 2009, 03:07:48 AM »
What would look better attached to a PC playing a encode at fullscreen, a 1080p TV, or a 1080p projector?
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Offline DigitalSteel

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« Reply #48 on: August 24, 2009, 05:01:03 AM »
Depends on a few things.  I have a 1080p tv, but I tend to watch all movies on my projector which is actually only 800x600. Sometimes size is better if the quality is good enough.
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« Reply #49 on: August 24, 2009, 09:23:34 PM »
So say I plugged in my computer which runs at 1680x1050 resolution into a 800x600 projector. Then say i were to play an anime encode that is 800x600 resolution in fullscreen. Does that mean that it wouldn't do any upscaling. In which case I can get the projector to project on an entire wall an image that really is only a small resolution? Sounds too good to be true. I know there is probably a flaw in this plan but do tell me of it.
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« Reply #50 on: August 25, 2009, 07:01:52 AM »
I see no flaw, you must simple keep in mind you will get a bigger image of the same resolution. However, probably not cropped or out of ratio and dus as clean as possible in theory (I think).
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Re: TV Quality vs. PC Quality
« Reply #51 on: August 25, 2009, 03:54:37 PM »
Quote from: xtras on August 24, 2009, 09:23:34 PM
So say I plugged in my computer which runs at 1680x1050 resolution into a 800x600 projector. Then say i were to play an anime encode that is 800x600 resolution in fullscreen. Does that mean that it wouldn't do any upscaling. In which case I can get the projector to project on an entire wall an image that really is only a small resolution? Sounds too good to be true. I know there is probably a flaw in this plan but do tell me of it.

Make sure that when you switch to the projector that you change the resolution in windows.
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