hd scam

Can anyone else make sense of the question being asked? I'm a bit buzzed at the moment and it doesn't make sense at all. If I'm understanding the OP's question, it's not a scam. The 8400/8500/8600 Nvidia's and the ATI's 2400/2600 can handle HD content at 1080p with no problems if I remember correctly.

I assume you both all those card and saw it yourself that can do a 1080p output. I saw people complaining that their card will not output 1080p inspite of the card saying it can do it...

It was just a question that I like to be sure about it because I don't want to waste my time on having a HD if there is no technology that will support it...

Are you like 5 years old or something?

I was surfing the net and suddenly I saw this forum. It states that all the advertisments of video cards that can play High-Definition video are false.

Most of those video cards advertised could only output 480i. I thought that the output needed to be at least 1080i or 1080p to be called HD, instead of just being HDCP compliant.




Is this what you were actually asking? It is quite ironic to call someone dumb when in fact you can't even form a proper (american) english sentence, let alone a paragraph. Also, people that shout and rant at other people when in fact that person is asking for help is what I'd call a general a**hole.


To answer "parts" of your question:

From what I could also remember, nVidia's 8400, 8500 & 8600, and aTi's 2400 and 2600 could handle all the way up to 1080p.

HDCP was one requirement to be able to stream protected videos at 1080p/i or 720p/i, if the HDCP part of the card was missing and the software required it then the video would be downsampled to 480i.

Of course, this generally depends on which HD resolution you're talking about, whether it be 720p, 720i, 1080i or 1080p. In some respects, 480i was high-def but due to it being too common already I think people then started calling 480i to be just "Standard Definition".

You're Welcome.

I think I remember reading a Toms review similar to this matter. I think the 2400 and the 84/8500 were having trouble with 1080p playback but if I remember correctly it was concluded that it may have been a driver issue.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/1 [...] page7.html

To lazy to read it but theres the link.

And nel, just breath and calm down.

Sorry, next time I will try to speak in plain English. lol !!!

by the way:

HD vs ED vs SD

Refers to the resolution or number of pixels used to represent a single video image frame. Standard Definition refers to having about 350,000 pixels per frame & High Definition refers to having about 2,000,000 pixels per frame, (or about 6 times more than SD). Therefore, 7201/p is NOT HD.

Wrong, noob. HD video is defined as 720i/p and 1080i/p. There is no such thing as "ED", at least in the sense that you are referring to.

How old are you? The forum demands to know!

You know what,, the hell with the HD monitor and a HD video card. I'm just going to buy me a HD eye glasses or a HD contact lens then I will see everything in HD at any given moment... YEAH !!! LOL !!!!

I don't understand the point of this post other than the fact that it started with mis-information.

720i/p is the "old" HDTV standard.

1080i/p is the "new" HDTV standard.

You need an HDCP compliant video card and monitor/TV to watch copy protected HD content.

You also forgot 720x480. EDTV is essentially the same thing as S(standard)DTV. Its just progressive at 60hz (or 50 in europe), which is outside of the NTSC/PAL specifications.

Dont keep lying to your self. 1080/720i and p ARE part of the HDTV specification. I love how you just make up acronyms.

EDTV really doesnt have much a place... as far as standards go. Stations cant broadcast it, and the only things that do make use of it are some dvd players and gaming consoles.

By 2009 everything will be switch to HD. So all the analog signals will be obsolete....

What is HD to begin with: is a t.v. or a monitor with a better clarity thats all there is to it...
Now,,, do not forget my ORIGINAL POST QUESTION "TRUE HD"

back in the day we only have a black and white t.v. then it came a much better one, a color t.v. and you know what people just didn't came up with a HD that's why they named it a color t.v.

For years high end graphics cards have been easily able to render well beyond HDTV resolutions like 2560x1600 being standard on any decent card you get today. Also starting with the 6800 series integrated video decoding has become the standard for all high end video cards.

What definitely isn't standard is a cards media decoding capability. If it supports it, it can range from MPEG2 decoding to H264x to Xvid or DivX. Even then on a computer this feature my not even be used if the media player doesn't support the extended capability of the integrated decoder.

Although since quad core seems to be easily available to anyone there should be more than enough processing power without a video cards help. That's not to say you can enable advanced filters that will suck up any processing resource to the point where even SD media will slow to a crawl.

So case in point whatever you were reading was a lie. If it can handle even direct x 7 and is an integrated graphics chip in say a notebook it can render the HD media. It doesn't mean it will run smoothly though. It just means it's possible.

I read somewhere that Vista will downgrade the resolution if it thinks the content is pirated. Maybe that's what's happening here?

Nel, when you grow up and go to your first job interview, try and remember: don't tell the interviewer that he/she has a useless brain that should be donated to science. They usually hate that.

Also, if we're such idiots, then you're an even bigger idiot for asking our advice. Go somewhere else, where people are smart enough for your taste. We'll try to manage somehow without you.

In 2009, everything is NOT switching to HD... everything is switching to digital signals. BIG difference. They are not phasing out SD. Curiously though... the last part you got right. Analog signals will be phased out (I see them delaying this)

What is HD? It certainly does not specifically refer to a TV or Monitor. It is a specification for digital video that has capabilities far above that of SD.

Thats sort of the case. Basically if an AACS source calls for HDCP encrypted channels, you need to have an HDCP compliant video card, monitor and cable; otherwise it will degrade the video quality.

Just another reason that HDDVD is superior to BluRay. AACS isnt even mandatory on HDDVD (and there is no region coding). HDDVD is the consumer friendly format :]

They are going to wait until they get enough hardware sold that they are fully entrenched and then they absolutely will enable the flag.

It was hacked within the first 30-60 days of Vista's official release anyway.

I really don't like all the pirating that's going on, but I like Vista and the strong-arm tactics even less. Don't these guys know that the lion's share of the pirating is coming, and will continue to come, from China, Russia etc. They will rip the HD content and burn it to hundreds of thousands of disks and there isn't anything that Hollywood, MS or anyone else can do to stop them. Irritating the crap out of the end user will make very little difference.

Hmmmm, they called a color t.v. back then because most tv's then were black and white. So at that time by definition a tv is a monitor that projects images onto a glass tube in black and white. So by saying Color TV you would differentiate it with the standard definition of a TV which includes having only black and white colors. Today a standard definition of a TV now includes the color, so when you say TV it automatically equals to a color tv back in the day. If you want to call a black and white tv now, you just don't call it a TV because the black and white color only is now outside the definition of a regular tv which includes by default, color.

Now why would people call it back then as HDTV, when in fact the major improvement back then was about the color and not the resolution/viewable image. In the future when HDTV is the standard, and almost impossible to get the old regular 480 line and below tv's, then HDTV would just become a TV. And the regular 480 line TV could probably called Standard Definition TV as it is less common than before.

Everytime I try to read the sentences that you actually wrote, it really gives me a headache. Probably due to very very very bad grammar, as I'm alright with bad spelling.

In the US it's color. Colour is British and uh... er... Australian.

Communication is the response one receives.

One must not lay blame on the hearer, if the question is not communicated properly.

Yup, and they change the dictionary to accommodate us.

What really pisses me off is nuclear. Clearly it is supposed to be pronounced noo-klee-er, but everyone is now pronouncing it noo-kyuh-ler. There is no "U" between the "C" and the "L" damn it.

Well you should look around then, he is not alone, in his ability to pronounce words or his incompetence.

Like armor and armour?
Omg why don't you complicate it further for us non english peeps?