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Low end ATI cards add HD DVD, Blu-ray playback

article published on 23 January, 2008

Earlier this morning, at an event in Beijing, the video card maker ATI announced that they will be incorporating Blu-ray and HD DVD playback support into their upcoming low end video cards. ATI confirmed that they had added DirectX 10.1 support to two new Radeon division cards at the lower end of the price spectrum, namely the HD 3400 model which should retail for as low as $49 USD. The ... [ read the full article ]

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OzMick
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 19:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm thinking they're that cheap because they've been subsidised. Subsidised to enforce DRM in hardware. Unless someone can guarantee that is not the case, I'd avoid these cards...
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atomicxl
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_ 		23. January 2008 @ 22:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ummm... all cards that decode HD-DVD/Blu-Ray have DRM built in. You need that HDCP thing to send it out over HDMI. ATI doesn't even make a directshow filter or codec so you don't have to worry about them banning stuff. I have a HD26000 and it doesn't block me from doing anything. Although the 3rd party plugin that uses the hardware uses the same CPU as CoreAVC which is 100% CPU based... go figure.

If you're building a cheap media center PC, these cards will be godsend. Torrents laugh at the format war.
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_ 		18. February 2008 @ 20:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This should become standard on graphic cards very soon hence why ati is making the transition quicker than everyone else soo they can fix the bugs sooner rather than later.
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