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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DeathByDuke - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
damn right,electronic paper!
yay!
itd be cool to open a book of encyclopedia britannica and have each page display scrolling text from each article, and videos for each article too, all stored on some multi Gb flash storage in the book covers
highlandsun - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
All of the new display technologies look really intriguing. And I think it's about time someone got Uhura's earpiece done right.ComatoseDelirium - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
-Great News For AGP Users, I heard many claims that H.264 decoding wouldn't be possible, and is "broken" on the GeForce 6 series AGP cards. Good to hear from the horses mouth (owner of a 6600GT).
BTW The article index is messed up, the correct pages do not appear, can someone confirm this?
s2kpacifist - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
Need...OLED display...now... I hope they fix the problem with the life of the blue soon.shabby - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
Definetly good to hear, but its wierd that the broken cards can decode h.264 but cant accelerate wmv9.I really hope this hddvd/bluray shit gets worked out, i have no intention of buying players from both camps. Could of swore i saw a company come out with a player that read both formats some time ago.
Cygni - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
h.264 is accelerated by simply "reprograming", if you will, the standard APU's and hardware on the card. No special stuff is needed. Theoretically, its possible with ANY modern GPU. Just gotta have the drivers to do it, assuming the cards got the juice to do it. The dead video decode engine on the early 6800 AGP cards was on the other hand a specially designed piece of hardware only for decode.Nobody Else - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
I believe that was Samsung that intends to come out eith a dual player.http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?se...">Samsung Player
Aquila76 - Saturday, January 7, 2006 - link
The index seems to be a page ahead (clicking on Page 16 brings up Page 17)