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money in optimizing TV video when there are numerous posts here and
elsewhere the an nVidia FX-5200 card is sufficient.

If I were making R&D decisions, I'd go after the gaming market where people
are willing to pay megabucks to upgrade/replace their video cards
regularly.  Or the business market where I could sell low cost cards in
volume.

It's not like we will all run out and buy new hardware just because they
made the drivers better.  And even if we did, there aren't enough of us to
be a significant revenue stream.

Open sourcing the drivers is our best hope for improvement in this area.

Tom

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On Feb 1, 2008 6:58 AM, Brian Wood &lt;<a href="mailto:beww at beww.org">beww at beww.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">John Drescher wrote:<br><br>&gt;<br>&gt; I consider intel graphics 2 to 3 years behind ATI and nVidia in 3D but<br>&gt; it is unclear how much this effects 2D.<br><br></div>I think Intel pretty much concentrated on the &quot;business graphics&quot; end of<br>
things while ATI and nVidia went after the gaming market (or the CAD<br>market if you look at the Quadro series).<br><br>Unfortunately nobody seems to have gone after the video (as in TV)<br>segment of the market to any great extent.<br>
<br>beww</blockquote><div><br>From a business perspective why should any of these vendors invest a lot of money in optimizing TV video when there are numerous posts here and elsewhere the an nVidia FX-5200 card is sufficient.<br>
<br>If I were making R&amp;D decisions, I&#39;d go after the gaming market where people are willing to pay megabucks to upgrade/replace their video cards regularly.&nbsp; Or the business market where I could sell low cost cards in volume.<br>
<br>It&#39;s not like we will all run out and buy new hardware just because they made the drivers better.&nbsp; And even if we did, there aren&#39;t enough of us to be a significant revenue stream.<br><br>Open sourcing the drivers is our best hope for improvement in this area.<br>
<br>Tom<br></div></div>

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