ATi RADEON - The Empire strikes back (13/15) Video / DVD + Video IN / Out I’ll have to go into the RADEON’s video in / out capabilities in a later article, because at the moment, these cards are much too scarce for anyone to be able to hold on to them for any extended amount of time. I’ll just briefly say that the TV-out delivers a very good, screen-filling picture to your TV. Recording MPEG-2 videos to harddisk works very well.
Besides HDTV – a feature that is unfortunately still
rather meaningless in Germany due to lack of support – the RADEON offers various
variations of video scaling and adaptive per-pixel anti aliasing for video:
This technique determines on a per-pixel basis whether or not a pixel needs to be smoothed or not. This reduces line mismatching during playback, as you sometimes see with TV-cards when you have a moving picture but static text and the text seems to jitter. Ati’s DVD support has traditionally been second to none, and that’s no different with the RADEON. In addition to motion compensation, a feature also implemented in NVIDIA’s GeForce2 cards, ATi also incorporates IDTC into the hardware. This additionally relieves the strain on the CPU during the decoding process and also increases picture quality. Personally, I’m not a fan of watching DVD’s on my computer screen. I mean, seriously, what’s that TV-out for?! Well, but that’s just my opinion, and I’ve heard there are others... :o) |
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