CES 2006 - Day 2: Blu-ray/HD-DVD, PureVideo H.264, Viiv, Centrino Duo and a lot more
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on January 7, 2006 3:07 AM EST- Posted in
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Toshiba's HD-DVD Enabled Notebook with H.264 Decode Acceleration
Also at the NVIDIA booth was a Toshiba notebook using NVIDIA's newly announced GeForce Go 7600 GPU.
Other than the brand new GPU, the Toshiba notebook also had one other very interesting feature - a built in HD-DVD drive:
The HD-DVD drive was playing H.264 encoded content on the notebook and was doing so with no dropped frames, thanks to the fact that Toshiba put together their own decoder that took advantage of the H.264 decode acceleration capabilities of the GeForce 7600 Go GPU.
NVIDIA couldn't tell us when this notebook would be shipping, but it was nice to see a situation where the H.264 decode acceleration is clearly important. Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD playback, unless we're dealing with MPEG-2 encoded content, will inevitably stress H.264 decode performance.
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gibhunter - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
Is that Serenity that I'm seeing on the Toshiba laptop playing back in high definition? If so, WHERE CAN I BUY IT?!!! and How much?Troll4Hire - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
Is it just me, or am I the only one who saw the Motorola Bluetooth headset and laughed because it looks like a penis and testicles?http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/200...">Photo #1 http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/tradeshows/200...">Photo #2
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Jynx980 - Monday, January 9, 2006 - link
The Vaio on "The Four Viiv PCs Worth Mentioning" looks a lot like a cash register with the keyboard on top.Doh! - Sunday, January 8, 2006 - link
It's in Korean but you can see the specs.http://www.trigem.co.kr/tgproduct/lluon/ProductDet...">http://www.trigem.co.kr/tgproduct/lluon...ctDetail...
longfred - Sunday, January 8, 2006 - link
For more info on the rollable display shown by Philips look at http://www.polymervision.com">www.polymervision.com. You can find some nice pictures and a video at the website (Technology -> download).HamburgerBoy - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
That rollable display is pretty neat, but how does it work? For something that thin, would you have to use some really small batteries or what?AndrewChang - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
For those of us unable to attend a show like CES, I appreciate the quality and focus of your coverage. It's a nice reminder that you guys are still as dedicated as ever to Anandtech, as the quality of some recent articles had left me wondering. Thanks.DanaGoyette - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
My god, you could heat a house with that quad SLI system! What I want to know is how they plan to cool the inner heatsinks on those cards. This would be a really good use for a modded version of the Zalman TNN case.Of course, they should ditch the dual Prescott (if that's what it is) and go with a custom Yonah board.
They'd be better off with a much longer heatsink with the fan perhaps sticking out the end, or something like that.
Quantum3D Mercury, anyone?
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Cygni - Sunday, January 8, 2006 - link
Mercury? Puh shaw!The Independence 2500! http://www.quantum3d.com/products/Independence/Ind...">http://www.quantum3d.com/products/Independence/Ind...
A nice little graph, haha: http://www.quantum3d.com/products/images/independe...">http://www.quantum3d.com/products/images/independe...
ohnnyj - Sunday, January 8, 2006 - link
It is interesting that the Quad SLI actually is stated to have over 40Gpixels/s output which is about 4 times the power shown in the graph there:http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6020675.html">http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6020675.html