1080p Playback

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 1 09:05:35 UTC 2010


From: "James Bensley" <jwbensley at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, 2010/January/28 14:43


> Yet another mistake by me, a quick Google reveals I had a HD 4670 (I
> am really not on the ball today!) but as you mentioned the ATI support
> should of been pretty apt.
> 
> I am really rather perplexed as to why my Palit GT 240 (which is a
> GeForce GT240 with GDDR 5 instead of 3 and with a slight over-clock)
> won't do the job. I have spoken to a few now with technically inferior
> cards playing 1080p fine (mostly Intel chip sets though). I used to
> have a Popcorn Hour which is vast inferior but it was an integrated
> chip set and for that reason could play 1080p. I must be at some sort
> of disadvantage from not having an integrated chip set?

One might enquire 1080p 30fps or 1080p 60fps? That would make a difference
on a slow disk as in a laptop.

{^_^}




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