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On 6/10/10 23:28 , Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday, June 10, 2010 03:15:15 pm Nick Rout wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thursday, June 10, 2010 06:57:03 am Richard Morton wrote:
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Interesting, but it looks like overkill for a remote and underkill for a
frontend.
To be a practical frontend it would need hardware decoding for common
video formats, including h264. None of the tablets I've seen (including
the iPad) have anywhere near the power to do software decoding. Some
tegra chips have this capability, but I'm not sure which of them this
unit is using.
I think we'll see many ARM-based tablets in the coming months, they seem
to be the next "Netbooks".
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The web page claims "Full High Definition Multimedia"
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php">http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php</a>).
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Such a statement can mean a lot of things. It may be able to *display* HD resolutions but not necessarily decode anything
but MPEG2. I'm not sure what "HD web streaming formats" might mean, though "such as Youtube" implies flash, something an
iPad won't do.
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The website specifically says:<br>
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Up to 1080p video encode/decode and support for HD Web streaming
formats, such as YouTube H"<br>
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Over 140 hours audio and over 16 hours of HD video playback"<br>
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So - unless they're flat out lying - I think that answers that
question, doesn't it?<br>
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They're using nVidia Tegra2, which *should* be capable of hardware HD
decoding @ 1080p H.264...<br>
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<pre wrap="">It also says the screen is 1024x300, hardly what I would call "Full HD".
I hate it when marketing types write these things and not engineers.
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Actually it says 1024*600... But still no Full HD, but closer than what
you said! ;-)<br>
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Yes this might be nice as a frontend on the can or perhaps out by the
pool [1], but really I think I prefer the 'watch tv from the sofa'
paradigm.
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Agreed, totally.
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Me three!<br>
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Francesco<br>
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