AMD technology can upscale DVD quality video to almost 1080p resolutions

[flurry]

So?

Upcaling all you want, even with those fake "CSI Miami" upscalers, all you end up getting more RESOLUTION which is not the same as DEFINITION. If you uscale a low-res 320p video you still get the same lack of clarity of details (definition), only a much bigger, slower to download and watered-down file that you cannot zoom a bit without getting all blurry.

Remember people: HD stands for High DEFINITION, not High RESOLUTION. Stop believing what you see in CSI Miami. That's a fake show.

[bg048]

can someone in here tell me how to upscale the DVD with hardware acceleration, LOL. I got a ATI Radeon HD 4550, Windows XP, CCC. Playing the DVD with windows media player.

[PahangDragonbird]

@bg048 Go to CCC, under Avivo Video, all settings, scroll to the bottom "advanced quality" and check edge enhancement and turn it up.

I'm not sure if it works with WMP though, I use Cyberlink PowerDVD.

[Kanashto]

say there is dvd quality of that footage and 1080p quality of the footage, the upscaled dvd wouldn't match the original 1080p, right?

[DerPoltergeist13]

@Kanashto No, it wouldnt. An upscaled DVD just smooths out the edges and fills it up to an HD screen better than most HDTVs can do themselves. My living room TV with built in DVD player tends to upscale movies with action scenes at night time with a lot of digital artifacts, where there are none on the DVD itself.. an upscaled DVD player does it better so it looks good still.

[denzel786]

all its doing is a lanczos resize then applying an edge sharpening algorithm.

[lichohuayo]

PLACEBO

[NewbezLied]

i see some but most people who say they can is probably placebo

[FSFchannel]

oh crap I messed up my grammar, ignore my mistake.

[FindModders]

i cant see any difference

[klaount]

The difference is big mate

[NewbezLied]

probably placebo

[aussiebear22]

The one on the right is clearer and sharper.

The left one is slightly blurry and has some discoloration.

[Atheismrulez]

And now it does't matter anymore. Intel is back to kicking AMD's ass with the new Core i5. The 750 costs $196 and it performs roughly 20% faster than the Phenom II X4 965 which costs $240. AMD doesn't hold the crown for best bang-for-buck anymore, and this is coming from an AMD fan. AMD better come out with something better than simply having higher clock speeds and just calling it a day. Kinda reminds me of the days of the Pentium 4 and Netburst, only that now it's AMD.

[DeadFredVideo]

They'll slash the prices of Phenom II soon, the have to LOL

The Core i3 mobile platform isn't here yet, so these new Athlon/Turion chips will stay competitive for a while :) Plus, these CPU's are never put into high end laptops, chances are these will stay popular in the budget lines of DELL, HP etc. :)

Rumor is 6-Core Istanbul will be tweaked and shoved in an AM3 package for desktops. Phenom II X6 would be pretty awesome :)

[sobchuk]

It will arrive in Q3 of 2010. The codename for the 6-core destop part is Thuban.

[DeadFredVideo]

Ah right, that's too little too late to be honest :/ From what i remember, Intel will be at 32nm by then :/

Hopefully they will get it out faster, as they did with Istanbul Opteron's :)

[TSSdrifting]

There aren't really that many advantages as far as every day computing is concerned for having more cores. The kind of person who is buying computers for the sorts of money that "real" quad core's come in at tend to be gamers, and for gamers almost always a faster dual core is better than a slower clocked quad core.

[ViciousDave4Life]

Umm, yeah? My PS3 does the same thing and it's only $300 dollars. So why get a PC and pay $700 for a PC when you can get a PS3 and upscale DVDs for the low price of only $300?

[ThatFlipKidxD]

And why pay $300 dollars for a PS3 when you can build a Gaming PC to play all the games (better gfx than ps3) and go on the internet? You obviously are on the PC commenting on this video so don't hate.

[ViciousDave4Life]

Well, actually I'm on a Mac. Occasionally I do use Windows though.

[DarksideShuffle]

its really hard to make a gaming pc for 300$ unless its really outdated ^_^

[tommarnk]

how much do the PC you use NOW cost? around $500 i think?

then add $300 you have used on a console and you got a realy fast gaming rig, that will last atleast 3-4 years, plus cheaper games aka PC versions of console games are like $20 cheaper and you can buy from steam and get FREE updates not those that microsoft forces you to pay

[ViciousDave4Life]

Hahaha. I own a Mac. $2500. Top of the line every single part iMac configuration. I'm not a cheap bastard like you.

[FSFchannel]

why would you waste that cash?

[ViciousDave4Life]

Unknown to you, macs use laptop parts you obviously know, so the cost of parts is more expensive, if you compare an iMac to another all in one PC spec by every single spec, you'd find Macs are not overpriced, they just have a lot of stuff not everybody would use.

[FSFchannel]

They are overpriced, explain what is "Different".

What is are the specs in YOUR 2500 dollar "imac", i would like to know if you are actually wasting your cash. I bet you are.

also, where did you get "Laptops" from? Laptops are always overpriced.

[ViciousDave4Life]

Built in wifi, built in 10 watt audio, 24" tft matrix screen, 1920 x 1200 resolution, blue tooth, firewire 800 port. My iMac has 3.06 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of DDR3 Ram, 1TB HDD, and ATI Radeon HD 4850 with 512MB VRAM. Compare spec by spec to another all in one, not a desktop tower, cause screen is built in to iMac.

[FSFchannel]

waste of money, regardless of if it is an all in one.

What is the point in getting an all in one, you can get a very small M-ATX board and a small (maybe server) case, turn it up and add a screen, and its just a bit bigger and you can save lots of cash.

I don't have time to argue with mac fanboys, so ill just leave..

[TSSdrifting]

Why would you bother getting an all in one? You lose the portability of a laptop, it's more expensive than a desktop and you lose both the power and the upgradabilty of a tower.

[defragen1]

yea why not be a nub fuck and buy a stupid console

[PlayNChilll]

Amd is for movie and good picture and intel is speed

So a good amd and good graphic you get good graphic

[teac77]

Why do they put AMD Athlon processors in notebooks,instead of Turion processors?

[Atheismrulez]

AMD Turion: AMD Athlon Mobile. It's the same processor design.

[TheDevilOnHoliday]

woah - a 4200 can do that?

looks like my 4870 can do it!

[gerikoh]

well the one on the right is definately more vibrant, crisp and responsive.

[deepakm]

Dont even see a huge difference tbh.

[kingdong4]

the only way u would notice a difference is in a side by side vid like this...

[Vagmonster666]

how can i use that? also will it work on my ati integrated 3200 on my htpc. i have 4870 1gig in my ghaming rig

[Zayras7]

cool vid, this should've honestly had an HD option though.

[mozart116]

The HD option doesn't happen in 10 minutes

[Zayras7]

haha cool, just saw it

[JaxxDaemon]

neat