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    Latitudes & DVD Quality

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by whoiga, Sep 15, 2006.

  1. whoiga

    whoiga Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know the NVIDIA Quadro cards aren't anything special, but is the DVD quality unbearable? Or is it at least tolerable?

    I have an older PC laying around has an NVIDIA GeForce 4 w/ 64 MB... as long as the Quadro cards can produce better video quality than that, I'll be fine, as my laptop wouldn't be used for gaming or anything.
     
    whoiga, Sep 15, 2006
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  2. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    good media player, extra ram, faster hard drive (for when using disk cache) and last but not least - the quality of the dvd to start with

    other than that the card can handle high definition video playback

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Sep 15, 2006
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  3. drumfu

    drumfu super modfu

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    the gpu has very little to do with the quality of dvd playback because a dvd is 2D. like ghn said, the biggest issue is the quality of the source itself; i.e., the dvd.
     
    drumfu, Sep 15, 2006
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  4. jeffmd

    jeffmd Notebook Evangelist

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    your geforce 4 should be displaying dvd video perfectly fine. Its 2d is excelent, and while it lacks some of the usual acceleration found in todays cards, that dosnt impact quality, only cpu % used.
     
    jeffmd, Sep 15, 2006
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  5. whoiga

    whoiga Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh alright. You guys are so helpful. I should've found this website years ago... :)
     
    whoiga, Sep 17, 2006
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