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Screen resolution required for quicktime HD trailers?

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bcblair

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I am about to buy a laptop and I want to keep my budget as low as possible, but I want it to be as advanced as possible, so that it doesn't become obsolete too quickly. My desktop is having trouble showing the new Quick Time high definition movie trailers. I don't want to buy a laptop and then have my graphics not be able to play these new video clips/movies. What do I need to spec on my laptop to be able to see them? I will also use the laptop for lots of photo editing, bit I do not do gaming. I am looking at the Dell 6000 laptop. Should I go with the WSXGA or the WUXGA screen? Which graphics card? The Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900 [add $0], ATI MOBILITY? RADEON® X300 64MB HyperMemory? [add $50] or the 128MB DDR ATI's MOBILITY? RADEON X300 PCI Express x16 Graphics [add $119].

Here is a link to the hd gallery at quick time.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/

TIA
 
Those will run the price up, won't they. Do you or anyone know how the AMD processors would be compared?

I may have to get that for my next desktop instead. It might ne too expensive on a laptop.
 
I was directing it there more for the video aspect. The minimum really would be 64mb of video. I would say an AMD of equivalent to the P4 listed would work fine.
 
I have a desktop at work with an Athlon64 4000+ (San Diego core), and when I play 720p Quicktime H.264 clips, I get major dropped frames. On the other hand, my Athlon64 X2 3800+ at home has no problem playing back 720p. I haven't even tried 1080p yet mostly b/c I'm doubtful that my X2 can handle it.

Thus, if I were you, I'd wait for dual core mobile CPU's or for mobile GPU's with H.264 hardware decoding. Dual core Yonah and the Mobility Radeon X1600 are just around the corner (although Catalyst drivers enabling Avivo/H.264 decoding have yet to surface), and dual core Turions won't be far behind the Intel Yonah's. Although nVIDIA has promised H.264 decoding on their Geforce 7 series GPU's (I'm assuming they mean Geforce Go 7 series as well), there's been no clear indication of when they'll enable the support (or if they'll hopefully enable it on Geforce 6 series).

Lastly, in terms of resolution, if you want to be able to play back 1080p, then you'd probably want WUXGA (in addition to a dual core CPU or H.264 enabled mobile GPU). However, that wouldn't help much on the i6000 since I seriously doubt it could play back 1080p content. You might get away with 720p playback, so WXGA would probably be your best value on an i6000. And if you must get an i6000, then at least get the 64MB Mobility Radeon X300 so you can get hardware MPEG/DVD decoding. Unless I'm mistaken, the Intel GMA 900 doesn't even support that.

Hope that helps.
 
Originally posted by: Ripvanwinkle
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WMVHD's requirements might matter if H.264 wasn't already widely expected to be the future codec for HD-DVD, Blu-Ray DVD, the ATSC, etc.

Here's a link demonstrating AMD's dual core mobile platform playing back a 1080p H.264 clip, just to give you an idea of how much it is in your interest to wait for dual core mobile CPU's. In addition, given the recent demonstration and announcement of ATI's GPU accelerated H.264 decoding on the Radeon X1xxx series GPU's, you better believe that the wait will be worth it if you want to be able to play back HD content in the future.
 
Sold a couple new Dell i6000's to customers, equiped with Pentium M 1.8GHz and 64meg ATi x300. Both played 1080p trailers flawlessly, or just as well as my i9200 with mr9700. All 55% - 75% CPU usage during playback, with no spikes higher than 85%. I was really surprised on how great the x300 did 1080p, since other aspects of the x300 were far below the MR9700.

Don't worry about P-M and X300 for 1080P. It will be fine.

Heck, even old desktop HTPC running AMD socket A mobile 2400 and ATi 9700Pro ran 1080P trailers perfectly. I guess it has a lot to do with what other junk you might also have installed and running in your system. Looks like most users that have problems with 1080P are running nvidia cards. Maybe that is simply because more nvidia cards are out there, or perhaps ATi handles 1080P better?
 
Originally posted by: RobsTV
Sold a couple new Dell i6000's to customers, equiped with Pentium M 1.8GHz and 64meg ATi x300. Both played 1080p trailers flawlessly, or just as well as my i9200 with mr9700. All 55% - 75% CPU usage during playback, with no spikes higher than 85%. I was really surprised on how great the x300 did 1080p, since other aspects of the x300 were far below the MR9700.

Don't worry about P-M and X300 for 1080P. It will be fine.

Heck, even old desktop HTPC running AMD socket A mobile 2400 and ATi 9700Pro ran 1080P trailers perfectly. I guess it has a lot to do with what other junk you might also have installed and running in your system. Looks like most users that have problems with 1080P are running nvidia cards. Maybe that is simply because more nvidia cards are out there, or perhaps ATi handles 1080P better?
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Are you using Apple's QuickTime Player application to play these 1080p videos?

What screen are you using for displaying this? Unless you've got a 30" screen, I don't see how you can say you're playing it in full glory or "perfectly". On my AMD 3200+ with ATI 800XT PE, playing in QT is a slideshow (doing DaVinci Code, the highest one that's 1920x900). Playing it in a DVD player like Nero's results in a lightning fast movie, but it's scaled and not as pretty.

 
Originally posted by: bcblair
I am about to buy a laptop and I want to keep my budget as low as possible, but I want it to be as advanced as possible, so that it doesn't become obsolete too quickly.
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When you have a solution for that, let me know.. OK? 😉
 
Originally posted by: bernse
Originally posted by: bcblair
I am about to buy a laptop and I want to keep my budget as low as possible, but I want it to be as advanced as possible, so that it doesn't become obsolete too quickly.
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When you have a solution for that, let me know.. OK? 😉
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😀 :beer:
 
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