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    what are the minimum requirements for HD video?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by mossoos, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. mossoos

    mossoos Notebook Enthusiast

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    is it at least 64 megabyte dedicated graphics card?

    i want to watch HD, and im using my brothers laptop and it has a 256 mb ATI X1400 and yet there is some latency, very little..but still noticeable.
     
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Only the latest generation of graphics cards support HD play back. If you have the x1400 then it wont help and the CPU has to do all the work. What CPU do you have?
     
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    mossoos Notebook Enthusiast

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    1.6 ghz duo 2
    1 gig ram

    it still plays the HD video very well...but very little latency, that is still somewhat noticeable
     
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    not true. x1k series, nvidia 7 series, and above help with hd decoding.

    the x1k / nvidia 7 series can't do ALL the work though, so you still need an adequate processor.

    probably 128 megs is good, but there is no specific gpu requirement. a (very) fast cpu alone could do it with integrated graphics.

    the new 8 series / hd 2 series are able to do pretty much all the work of hd video, so your processor speed has less impact when matched with these cards.
     
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    Define "HD". Are you talking 720p? 1080p?

    HD acceleration depends on the video card you have. I think the X1400 only does WMV-HD acceleration, but I could be wrong...might be X1600 and up.
     
    thegsrguy, Jul 17, 2007
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