[ale] Black Boxes was power strips are doomed

[Jim Kinney]

That NVidia Ion platform is uuber sweet! IWANNAIWANNAIWANNA!!!

Office/school PC system with superior graphics output, chubby client format,
minimal desk space...

poked into an old thinkpad T21 case....

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net
> wrote:

> Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > ...Has a BE FE separation allowing you to velcro a FE to the back of
> > your TV. Now, if only the was support for HD decoding in the GPU!
> >
> > I put my MythTV into storage and am waiting for support for my HD
> > TVs... It's been 2.5 years...
> >
> > On 6/16/09, Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >> Atlanta Geek wrote:
> >>> Changing the subject a bit.  But does anyone find it ironic that as the
> >>> technology gets to the point where we can have all these neat flat
> panel
> >>> screens we still have to keep the furniture around for the little black
> >>> boxes.
> >>>
> >>> The only people that can hang up a flat panel TV with no boxes are the
> >>> guys who only have Over The Air tv or watch analog only on their cable
> >>> network.
> >>>
> >> <snip>
> >> Or people with other solutions like mythtv that hides away nicely and
> >> only has an hdmi cable going to the tv through the wall.  ;-)
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> Take a look at:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU
>
> VPDAU support is in trunk, requires an nvidia 8xxx or 9xxx gpu.  Decodes
> 13.5 Mbps h264 hd 1080p (blue ray) with just 5% CPU on an athlon X2
> 3800+.  Similar results is had with mpeg2 streams.  I've actually use a
> backport to .21 provided by Jean-Yves.
> Read up on it here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VDPAU
> The new holy grail of front ends are the ion based boards:
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/nvidia-ion-platform-gets-demonstrated-at-ces/
>
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> Calvin...
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