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NVIDIA Unveils DVD Player/Decoder for the Ultimate PC Home Theater

I'm still waiting to see how nVidia's hardware DVD decoding stacks up against ATi's time-tested abilities. I still prefer my PowerDVD 4.0 software: it can decode DTS!

Edit: I doubt it would be possible to improve my current desktop DVD setup with my Radeon 7500/PowerDVD 4.0/Boston BA4800s. The image is superb, so my guess the only improvement could come from a 5.1 speaker system.
 
it's a shame their gf4 ti chips don't have hardware idct. I'm also hoping they've incorporated the features that tv-tool has right into their drivers.

If so, I'm game for a gf ti 4200 when they show up.

Windvd is my preferred software. Don't know what was up with my copy, but powerdvd xp looked like crap. blockiness was very apparent compared to the superb windvd 2.3 engine.
 
Im currently doing what Nvidia are bragging about above with my dual head PCI GF2MX.
Seems its all in the drivers (nView) so the Ti GF4's should be able to do it too if i can with my MX, yeah?
If you want to try just setup a keyboard shortcut under nView properties for displaying app on 2nd display.
When you open the DVD on the primary, full screen it, then hit your previously made keyboard shortcut and the DVD will jump to the secondary display 🙂
If you make another shortcut for display 1 then you can toggle which display it is displayed on.
It appears that you will not need to buy a new card to take advantage of this feature as it would appear that any nVidia card can take advantage of this new driver feature.
FYI, im using the 27.00 drivers to do this.
 


<< it's a shame their gf4 ti chips don't have hardware idct. >>



Since a majority of people now have PC's over 700+MHz and 128MB's of memory, I don't see the advantage of having ATI's IDCT as long as you have a decent video card.
 


<< Since a majority of people now have PC's over 700+MHz and 128MB's of memory, I don't see the advantage of having ATI's IDCT as long as you have a decent video card. >>



It wouldn't on a single head machine, but when cranking dual head with dvd on the second head, having it use as little cpu power as possible would be ideal.
 
NVidia still has quality issues, I can even notice it while playing DVD's with my XBox on a 36" Trinitron. My stand alone player looks far better, and the PS2 even beats the XBox in DVD quality IMO.
 
I wouldn't judge this product based on the xbox's dvd playback.

Using windvd 2.3 on my visiontek gf2 ti comes very close to my pioneer 343 standalone player.

Not sure who's decoding software powers the xbox's dvd playback though.
 
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