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zeiter

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Does it support 1080p (1920 x 1080) output with dvi to hdmi to plug it into my hdtv??
 

EricVT

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Feb 19, 2008
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Or 1280x720p?

(sorry to steal your thread, hoping someone can answer both because I'm curious about both)
 

waywardsage

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I've wondered this myself. However, can this card decode Blu ray? say, if I upgraded my DVD burner to a Blu ray drive in the future? I'm getting a 17" Macbook Pro. So it'll matter to me.
 

voyagerd

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I've wondered this myself. However, can this card decode Blu ray? say, if I upgraded my DVD burner to a Blu ray drive in the future? I'm getting a 17" Macbook Pro. So it'll matter to me.

You don't need a special graphics card to decode blu-ray. It just accelerates it so your CPU doesn't have to do all the work. The following features probably only work in Windows Media Player unfortunately.

NVIDIA PureVideo® HD Technology
•Dedicated on-chip video processor
•High-definition H.264, VC-1, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration
•Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing
•HDCP capable
•Noise Reduction
•Edge Enhancement
•Bad Edit Correction
•Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction)
•High-quality scaling
•Video color correction
•Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) support
 

EricVT

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Feb 19, 2008
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Thank you!

Can't wait to get my soon-coming MBP hooked up to my 52" DLP and 5.1 system. It will likely sit on my component shelf hooked up just like that most of the time when I don't have it out and about.
 

waywardsage

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Dec 22, 2006
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Can you download Windows media player for Mac? This may be a stupid question, i'm not a mac user just yet.
 

JWest

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Can you download Windows media player for Mac? This may be a stupid question, i'm not a mac user just yet.

I don't believe they make it for Mac anymore (though I think they used to). Anywho, you can download Flip4Mac (which is free) which let's you play various windows media formats in quicktime and iTunes.
 

Tracer

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Jun 20, 2007
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Use VLC it will play anything you throw at it.

Including those pesky MKVs.

Tracer
 

DallasDeckard

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Oct 6, 2008
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Would I just use a regular adapter?

yes.

yes

I ran an external 24" 1920x1200 display off my gen1 macbook - you'll have no problem running high resolutions w/ this videocard.

Thanks for answering this question. I was wondering, do I just need a simple DVI-D to Component adapter, or something more exotic?

I saw this one:

http://sewelldirect.com/product.asp.../RpN/Scik6pIE5gswHfyITW4iVFDRshMIR7dqVvrLHvhN

but it says it's designed with "ATI chipsets" in mind. I see plenty of DVI to Component adapters, and just wondered if that would do the trick. Thanks for the help.
 
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