[mythtv-users] Does video card brand matter? VDPAU

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 29 October 2009 14:59:12 Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 October 2009 09:13:07 aaron wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:02, Bruce Nordstrand <brucen at ksl.com.au> 
wrote:
> >> > The GT220's don't have any extra power connectors, the motherboard has
> >> > one of the 4 pin Molex's  and I has that plugged in. The GT220 is one
> >> > of these:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gt-220,2445-3.html
> >>
> >> OMG! Look at the size of that fan!
> >
> > I noticed that. I wonder if it's made by Rolls Royce or General Electric.
> >
> > I wonder how much of that fan is marketing. Some segments of the GPU
> > market seem to like huge noisy devices. This card will not sell well with
> > gamers, since it lacks the mandatory scantilly-clad woman on the
> > packaging.
>
> Funny you should say that, 2 dungeons and dragons books just arrived
> from Amazon for my son's birthday, both with scantily clad (elf) women
> on the cover.

Most fans of such games are adolescent males, and the makers know full well 
what appeals to them.

What the adolescent boys do not realize is that most adolescent females are 
not impressed by video game prowess.

I've always thought such marketing was funny, but I suppose it's effective 
since they continue to do it.

nVidia often uses scantilly-clad females on their GeForce series of cards, 
but, interestingly, they never use such images on the Quadro series. I think 
there is some sort of lesson there.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org