Posted 09/16/2009 at 09:17:07am

I'm flabbergasted by AMD's stance on this.  Things were a lot more simple when clock speeds were clearly stated.  We know enough about chip families to grade a 486DX at 66 MHz versus a Pentium at 75 MHz - it's trivial compared to sussing out the difference between three different chips all labeled with ambiguous and identical "performance ratings", like 3200+.  They started the nonsense, and Intel is about the only player left (AMD, ATI, NVidia) yet to succumb to the same shenanigans.

Posted 10/25/2008 at 12:19:06pm

The suggestion to uninstall any existing codecs is just plain retarded.  I paid good money for my Cyberlink and NVidia directshow decoders, and I quite like being able to play 1080p video with full hardware acceleration and 5-10% CPU usage on a three year-old system.  It would be smarter to investigate streaming with a codec agnostic or codec aware application, like VLC or Media Player Classic HC, transcoding prior to streaming, or just laying out $100 for a MediaMVP that can do it right.

Posted 10/23/2008 at 11:28:21am

Reading this article, along with the "Load Letter" that heralded it, made me picture Norman's portrait replacing the "actual stock photograph" of the writer in the last issue's piece suggesting that we should write blogs for $10 a pop. 

The second software system is called Global Immersion, which is the hardware that powers the main presentation playback. The video is stored in a proprietary Pixar format, and packs the 30fps video over a string of files that require significant hardware muscle to process. They're not just playing a large AVI file here. A combination of software and hardware blending is also required to align the six projectors so that the video is perfectly synced and aspected to look like one giant display.

Classic!  Way to go, Normie - you earned your $10 today!