Video acceleration

[impar]

Greetings!

***- [url=http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/print/video-playback2.html]The Look of Perfect: Analysis of Graphics Accelerators Performance during Media Playback

High-definition video on PC has become very widely spread over the past couple of months: full-HD monitors are currently available for $500, Blu-Ray optical drives sell at about $250, and the leading graphics processor developers are already offering inexpensive chips that are promised to free the CPUs completely from video-data decoding. But is it all as simple as it seems? Let’s try to find out together![/url]

***- [url=http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/autumn_2007_video_shootout/]Autumn 2007 Video Processing Face Off

Think upsampled DVD is just as good as Blu-ray and HD DVD? Heard amazing things about the PlayStation 3? Interested in comparing Avivo and PureVideo? We’ve got all of that in this Autumn’s Video Processing Face Off![/url]

[powerarmour]

PS3 FTW...

Nothing comes close IMO to home video/audio quality...

[krips]

Not even dedicated HTs?

[powerarmour]

Not even dedicated HTs?

Nope, I even have a couple myself, and when everything is rigged to my 42" LCD in the front room via HDMI, the PS3 is in a different class.

Sony’s console is in a completely different class when it comes to home theatre and hi-fi performance. Like many premium audiophile CD players, the PS3 is able to resample conventional music CDs to 88.2 kHz (optical out) and even 176.4 kHz (via HDMI). As a Blu-ray player, the PS3 is one of the fastest players on the market in terms of BD-Java performance and compatibility, and even features high-end capabilities such as 1080p24 output.

The PS3 has a crapload of media options also, and as that review agrees, it's the king of upscaled DVD playback and the Blu-ray is as good as any other $500 player. It's just the best media centre out hands down IMHO.

[krips]

PA, does the PS3 work as a universal media player, playing SACD and the likes?

[powerarmour]

PA, does the PS3 work as a universal media player, playing SACD and the likes?

Yep, the PS3 can play SACD/CD/DVD/Blu-ray/MP3/AAC/WMA/MPEG4/MPEG2/MPEG1/MPEG4 AVC (H.264) and probably a few others I can't remember...!, It can stream media from a media center over a local network via DNLA, it's due to get DivX support soon also, a freeview DTV adapter and online on-demand movies.

It can resample CD's also at something like 176Khz via HDMI which is a modern high-end feature for top-end hi-fi kit. There's also the small fact that it supports HDMI v1.3 and Dolby True HD 7.1 w/uncompressed audio.

There's more info on the main site :-

http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Using

[powerarmour]

Avivo HD vs Purevideo HD (9600 vs 3870) :-

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=552

Nvidia = decode two streams + Aero
ATI = decode one stream - Aero

[UDF2Diablo]

i keep wanting to use my PS3 more often ...

but i never do! - all the games i might want on the PS3 i can just get on my xbox 360 (cheaper and with gamer score), so the PS3 just gets neglected ;(

too bad i can't be bothered to pay for Blu-Ray movies either.

[powerarmour]

AMD & NVIDIA Video Enhancement Quality Tested :-

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HQV/HQV_2.0/

New AMD Catalyst 10.6 Drivers Improve Video Playback, Gaming Performance :-

http://hothardware.com/News/New-AMD-Cat ... rformance/

HQV Benchmark 2.0 Analysis – ATi, nVidia and Intel :-

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... and-intel/

[impar]

Greetings!

HQV Benchmark 2.0 Analysis – ATi, nVidia and Intel :-
http://www.kitguru.net/components/graph ... and-intel/

It seems that ATI’s background with the production of processing chips for digital TVs still gives it some kind of advantage. Even budget cards like the passively cooled Sapphire HD 5550 generate similar video quality when compared with nVidia’s flagship GTX480.