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Spanky Ham
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: Blending with S3? |
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Has anyone ever talked with S3 about blending with their graphics cards? I believe people were trying to push Nvidia, but they didn't think there was any market. Maybe S3 would be interested. I doubt they sell to many cards, so they might jump at the chance to try to attract some more customers.
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AnalogRocks
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S3 does intergrated chip sets mostly don't they?
It's been along time since I saw an S3D card.
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Spanky Ham
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Go to the link. They have a couple of cards with the most expensive being $69.
When they first came out, they tried to go up against Nvidia/ATI. It looks like they gave up the gaming market and are focusing on the home theater market. If I remember correctly, then their biggest issue back then was drivers. I guess HT drivers are easier to do than gaming drivers. I believe blending is something that needs to be programmed into the driver. It shouldn't be to difficult for them to implement it. They just need a reason.
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AnalogRocks
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First. Find out if their drivers support gamma. If not then I'd think it'd be a non starter for the HTPC guys.
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stgdz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Blending with S3? |
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | | Has anyone ever talked with S3 about blending with their graphics cards? I believe people were trying to push Nvidia, but they didn't think there was any market. Maybe S3 would be interested. I doubt they sell to many cards, so they might jump at the chance to try to attract some more customers. |
IMHO you would have an easier time talking to matrox and having them support a 640x1080 with their triplehead2go
http://www.guru3d.com/article/matrox-triplehead-2-go-digital-edition-dvi-review/2
or 960x1080 with their dualhead2go
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/
Seems like it should be pretty easy for matrox to do this and I was going to ask a question of "Why can't HTPC's do blending this morning?" with things like the matrox out there.
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MikeEby
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You would need to get the software player vendors to work with them, I don't think any of the current software players, Cyberlink, Arcsoft or Corel will span two monitors. Ripping everything to the Hard Drive IMO is not real appealing.
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Zebu Fellenz
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| MikeEby wrote: | You would need to get the software player vendors to work with them, I don't think any of the current software players, Cyberlink, Arcsoft or Corel will span two monitors. Ripping everything to the Hard Drive IMO is not real appealing.
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Why would you even need to worry about two monitors? Couldn't the drivers be written in a way that the PC would only see one monitor with a resolution of say 3840x1080? Something like the horiz. span option I used to have in Win Xp.
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stgdz
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| MikeEby wrote: | You would need to get the software player vendors to work with them, I don't think any of the current software players, Cyberlink, Arcsoft or Corel will span two monitors. Ripping everything to the Hard Drive IMO is not real appealing.
Mike |
triplehead2go tricks windows into thinking there is one monitor.
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