Posted on 05/06/2006 12:41:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
In the article mentioned at post #20, price of $250 mentioned...also mentioned that BFG was going to offer a card, ASUS also...and Nvidia has cooked up a deal with physics middleware develeper Havok ...
The NV/Havok deal is pretty weak: it allows users with SLI systems to offload physics calculations to the second GPU, thus nullifying the main advantage of SLI since you can't use the dual cards for GPU and physics calcs at the same time (and the quality of the phsyics on the second GPU isn't nearly as good as on the Ageia PPU.)
The Asus card is available now with GRAW bundled; BFG to follow very soon.
I dont think either standard will go anywhere in DVD sales.....sales are tanking
now as it is. Who is going to invest in new gear?
How are ROM prices doing these days? Given how costly many video games are, and how dense and cheap flash is getting, I would think there would be some advantages to returning to the good old days of video game cartridges. True, a 1GB cartridge can't hold as much data as a DVD, but having data be readily available without long delays could reduce the amount of data that was required. Whereas CD and DVD video game machines tend to wear out or break, there are lots of Atari 2600's that are over 20 years old but still work great.
There's no need for a physics calculation unit on the PS3; developers can devote a Cell SPU to the task, problem solved.
The Inq didn't specify between nm processes--they said that Cell yields are horrible, period, regardless of die size.
If I didn't know better, I'd say The Inquirer and Register are both well-done satire.
DVD sales are tanking? That's new to me. The format's incredibly successful. If sales are down recently, that would probably be more due to the lack of any decent movies worth buying, rather than a rejection of the format.
The problem with HD-DVD/Blu-Ray detractors is that most of them don't understand that it will take years just to resolve which format is the "true" next-gen DVD, let alone replace the current DVD format. DVD itself launched in 1997, without a format war, clearly meant to be the successor to VHS... and didn't gain widespread acceptance until 2001-2002.
Regardless, there's a long-term need for Blu-Ray/HD-DVD, and the sooner they launch and the sooner one wins, the better.
Uh, yeah, except that I think most can infer when IBM flat-out atated not too long ago that yields at 90nm were swell (which isn't much of a surprise given that the tech for it is very mature) that they were, indeed, referring to the yields at the smaller size (which, in all likelihood, is true given the complexity of the Cell architecture.) That beind said, sure, the Inq is known for every-so-slightly exaggerating things on occasion, *cough*.
There has been a slowdown for more than a year....
Even bigger news, is that Mexico is #2 behind the US in bootleg sales....not China which the studios have been claiming year after year.
Not really. The advantages of either over the existing DVD format are miniscule compared to the advantages DVD had over VHS.
Yes, really. The advantages DVD had over VHS are irrelevant to the need for a higher-capacity DVD, especially when you consider the storage requirements of HDTV.
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