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    Best streaming box out now?

    The OP didn't really clarify what he meant by a streaming box. Does he want something for legal, Internet-streaming based video, or the (il)legal movies/tv shows that he downloaded from the Internet (or ripped from stuff he presumably owns)? AppleTV and Roku are the former, Dune HD is for the...
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    Anything new for audio streaming like Sonos and Apple Airplay?

    Sonos is really really good, and has probably the best interface of any audio streaming solution out there, but at $300 for the cheapest device and $350 for the speaker-less Connect, it is expensive. Sonos lets you queue tracks from a variety of sources, including NAS devices, Spotify, Amazon...
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    Question about "Digital Copy" Blu Rays

    Hmmm, when I activated UV on Vudu's site, I was asked to pair it with iTunes/WMP, but I declined. I also didn't read the details, so maybe it was for something else. In any case, the real war is not between UV and digital copy, but rather Vudu vs iTunes. Yes, you can use UV with other...
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    Question about "Digital Copy" Blu Rays

    For most recent blu-ray releases, a "digital copy" is synonymous with a UV copy. The main exception are Disney releases. AFAIK, UV lets you use BOTH a STREAMING provider (e.g. Vudu) and DOWNLOAD a copy using iTunes. If you bought a movie like Hobbit or Life of Pi, then I recommend you...
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    Recommend a Plasma to me

    Both 60 Hz and 96 Hz mode are good at minimizing judder, but both have issues. At the end of the day it really comes down to whether you want the better blacks in the 96 Hz mode, or the less eye strain 60 Hz gives you. 60 Hz: + Less flickering - Causes feathering or flickering artifacts in...
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    Recommend a Plasma to me

    Unless you're looking to save a lot of money with a heavily discounted ST50, go for the new ST60 instead. Has the 96 Hz mode and 10-pt pro adjustments that only the VT50 had last year. Reports are coming in that black levels are at least as good as the VT50 also.
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    7970Ghz, GTX690 or Titan

    Honestly I don't really see the purpose of buying a single Titan for gaming, unless you are very concerned about size/power/cooling. Titan makes more sense when you want the absolute best perf possible and run them in SLI.
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    ***Official Reviews Thread*** Nvidia Geforce GTX Titan - Launched Feb. 21, 2013

    I'm not sure why people are complaining about the price/performance ratio of this card. Does a $50,000+ BMW M3 outperform a V6 family sedan by 100%? Not even close. But apparently there are lots of people who buy one, or want one (but can't afford it). What NVIDIA is doing is really...
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    Need help with 3d setup.

    The answer is simple: You can't do frame-doubled 3D @ 60 fps @ 1920x1080 with an HDMI display. You are basically limited to the following: 1) Frame-doubled 60 fps @ 1280x720. This is what's used for games. 2) Frame-doubled 24/30fps @ 1920x1080. This is what's used for 3D Blu-ray. 3)...
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    Monitor Panel Concerns: I want to know what bit depth I'm buying in a 3D TV

    Plasmas inherently have 1-bit color depth. The sub-pixel can only be "on" or "off", and never in between (well it can, but the transition occurs so fast that it doesn't affect what you see). However, note the following: 1) For a TV, contrast and black levels are more important than color...
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    LCD big screens make no sense

    The other thing I should point is that while I think the Elite has very good viewing angles, at 70", screen uniformity becomes a bigger concern. Whenever I see the Elite at the store, I can see the loss of contrast and color fidelity starting at about 5" from the corners. While most of us...
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    LCD big screens make no sense

    The most important factor in picture quality is contrast. The Elite has better dynamic contrast (65000 vs 15000) while the Panasonic has better native contrast (11000 vs 6000). Generally speaking, native contrast is more important, unless you watch scenes where everything is dark and dynamic...
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    55" or 60"?

    Definitely go 60", unless you suffer from motion sickness from having a large TV. I have a 55" and my viewing distance is under 8 feet, and I definitely could have gone with a 65". Also, Amazon has the 65ST50 for $2100 with free shipping.
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    What's the best computer monitor for 1080p blu ray viewing?

    Actually IPS is considerably worse than TN for black levels. We are talking about 0.1 - 0.3 cd/m^2, depending on the backlight level.
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    LED, LCD, or Plasma: Which has the Best Picture Quality?

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    LED, LCD, or Plasma: Which has the Best Picture Quality?

    Perhaps this was true a few years ago, but things have changed now. Quality plasmas have really fallen in price, while good LED LCDs are still expensive. Sony HX929 is currently $3000 from Amazon for 55". Panasonic's flagship VT50 is $2100 for 55". The ST50, which is at least as good as the...
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    Which Company Makes the Best HDTV's? [POLL]

    Why isn't the VT50 better than the Kuro. It has nothing to do with incompetent engineers; in fact a lot of Pioneer's engineers for their plasma TVs went to Panasonic when Panasonic acquired the technology. It economics, duh. You can't expect a major electronics company to live off a $6000 TV...
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    time to upgrade the TV

    Plasmas should not be judged by how they look in the store, unless it's a place like Magnolia where they put them in a dimmed area. Default setting on 2012 Panasonic plasmas looks really dim (probably to save power), panel can actually get much brighter than the default setting. ST50 and...
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    Upgrading to HD for a Definitive PS3 Experience

    Input lag has little to do with the type of display technology (LCD or plasma) and more to do with the amount of video processing done on the inputs. A lot of flat screen TVs now have a "Game" mode that minimizes video processing. For actual pixel response time, plasma is faster and exhibits...
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    Samsung LCD backlight corner bleeding

    Almost all LCDs will have some degree of backlight bleed; however, as donfm said, it's up to you to decide whether or not it bothers you enough to return/exchange it. Also, you should verify if what you're seeing is actually backlight bleed, and not some uniformity or viewing angle issue. Move...
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    time to upgrade the TV

    If you can stretch your budget a bit, Panasonic ST50 would be the best choice for a TV if you value picture quality over everything else. However, I do have some reservations about using a plasma as a computer monitor, despite owning a VT50 myself.
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    670 Reviews are up

    The pricing and product positioning of the GTX 680 was pretty much determined by how it compared to the 7970. If 7970 was $400 and performed 20% faster, than the GTX 680 would have probably been called the GTX 670 Ti and costed $350.
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    670 PCB and Vantage Scores Leaked

    Length of HSF determines cooling capabilities, which in turn determines temperatures and noise levels. Given that everything else is the same, a longer HSF always produces lower temperatures and/or operates more quietly. The fact that the 690 is only 1 inch longer than the 680 yet runs...
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    Friend flashed an old GeForce 6800 with the wrong BIOS, what can I do?

    Your best bet here is to borrow a PCI card from a friend so you can boot into DOS and flash the card. If you actually need to spend money on a PCI card, you might as well just replace the card. And don't listen to tweakboy -- he's wrong here.
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    Project Denver

    In the future, you'll be accessing your PC at work remotely from your phone, which is docked so you can use you a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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    Project Denver

    See? Some people still living in denial and thinking the PC is all that. Given a choice between a $500 phone and $1000 laptop, most people would choice the former. Developers are ditching the PC platform and switching to phones. Pretty soon we'll even be running all our apps from our...
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    Project Denver

    You guys need to stop denying this, but the PC has always been uncool, and nothing Intel, AMD, and Microsoft do can change that. PC is for people who don't have a life, and that's exactly why they like the PC: They stay at home all the time. People like you and me, we like the PC, we are...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    Blu-ray isn't an open spec either. I'm not sure what the figure is, but in order to build a blu-ray player, you probably have to first fork over a sum well into the 6 digits. I'm not really criticizing AMD for not having their own displays and glasses, for not having something akin to 3D...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    I should emphasize that 3D, at this stage, is not a DIY sort-of-thing. AMD is trying to make it sound like it is, when in reality, it isn't. It's tightly controlled by the industry, and unlike software, there is actually hardware technologies involved. Until it becomes a DIY sort-of-thing...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    The only reason AMD goes open source is because: 1. They don't have the resources to develop their own solution. 2. They're afraid to take any risks. They're afraid to be leaders. They're afraid to make a GPU faster than Nvidia's. AMD should just buy out the 3rd party company or...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    People who post ridiculous one-sided and false statements should be banned from this discussion. Not calling any names, but most of us, including themselves, know who they are
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    The gtx580 has trouble beating the cheaper 6970 in 5 out of ten games. The gap between the 570 and 580 is only about 16% to begin with, so if the 6970 has trouble beating the 570, then usually the 580 will have trouble beating the 6970 also. Settled? Not yet. I'll make a deal with you...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    Did anyone ever say the 6970 beats the 580 at those settings? I didn't. Even Hardocp concludes the 580 is still faster overall. But it often comes within 5% at those settings, whereas the gap if more than 15% at 19x12. At the end, I think both companies are going to be concerned. Nvidia...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    Some of the expectations were ridiculous. I remember someone on the Hardocp forums claimed it would be 71% faster than or 6870, or around 25% faster than 580, just because it had 71% more SPs than the 6870 (1920 vs 1120). And then we had people here talk for pages about the new VLIW4...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    6970 actually has worse price/performance than the 570 at that resolution. It'll be interesting to see if prices for the 570 and 6970 change from now to the end of the year.
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    It is quite a bit larger than Cypress. As Anandtech's title suggests, Cayman was designed so AMD wouldn't fall too far behind in geometry and compute performance. That's the cost of making it more Fermi-like: the increase in die size doesn't translate into significantly better performance in...
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    Computerbase ratings (6950 = 1.00) 19x12 4xAA 6950 = 1.00 6970 = 1.10 570 = 1.11 580 = 1.27 25x16 4xAA 6950 = 1.00 570 = 1.06 6970 = 1.14 580 = 1.28 25x16 8xAA 570 = 0.92 6950 = 1.00 6970 = 1.13 580 = 1.16
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    AMD 6900 reviews thread (UPDATED)

    At 25x16 with generous amounts of AA, 6950/6970 performance for its price is quite amazing, but below that, it's not great when compared to the 570 (but it's not bad). The trend is similar to what we saw in 480 vs 5870, where the 480's large advantages at 19x12 shrunk considerably at 25x16...
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    AMD Radeon 6970/6950 Retail Pictured, released Dec 13-17, $500/$375 pricing

    I said the scores were low, even for those settings. What I meant by a stressful test was that they used a custom timedemo with a ton of things going on. Not the resolution/AA settings.
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    The 6970 runs at 880 core, 1536sp's, 250watt TDP, launch date is the 14th in US

    A number of AIBs are already selling overclocked 570's, usually clocked at 800/2000. At those speeds, it's about 8% slower than the 580.
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