NVIDIA Ion Blu-ray Investigation: Not a problem?
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 10, 2009 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Hey guys, late last night I published an article on Blu-ray performance with NVIDIA's Ion platform.
NVIDIA was quick to respond and they believe that the data isn't correct and want some time to re-create my environment and test the titles themselves.
In the interest of being completely accurate I've pulled the article for now until I know for sure if the Blu-ray performance results are what I found.
It's back to reviewing SSDs for me...
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OneArmedScissorB - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
Is this "other website" Tom's Hardware, by any chance?In that case, that was a comparison using a RAID array of FOUR hard drives, with a whopping total capacity of 20-40GB, compared to only two outdated 64GB SLC drives.
Just typical TH sensationalist BS, and not even remotely conclusive. All it really said was that, in certain instances, a setup like that might be more cost effective for IT use than an unrealistically expensive SLC drive. NOTHING else can be concluded from their "tests."
The0ne - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
In all fairness he did say "slowly" which I agree. In, hopefuly, a few more years memory would be quicker and the capacity larger so the decision between storage would be easier to make. There's already announcements for terabyte flash cards (SD, Compact, Memorystick, etc.)Looking at the trend however, this will take a few more years to catch up on price/performance/capacity...that is unless someone really wants to be #1 and push/release ahead :)
VaultDweller - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
I for one am more interested in this epic SSD round-up I hear you've been working on, anyway!dkreviews - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
Well, this picked my interest and it wasn't hard to find "deleted" article using google and I gotta say the test has been somewhat short and not through, so sounds like reviewer didn't setup something correctly.BikeDude - Sunday, March 15, 2009 - link
I read it too, and I could not put my finger on anything.Besides... This stuff should be fool-proof. If it is hard to engage nVidia's hardware accelerator, then it is worthless IMO.
I believe PureVideo HD is married with Cyberlink's awfully buggy PowerDVD software as far as Blu-ray playback is concerned.
And that my friends, is an intolerable situation. nVidia's decoder should be made freely available to everyone.
Next time I buy a GPU, I will buy the one with a proper decoder freely available. No worries -- I can certainly wait with my upgrade!
TekDemon - Saturday, April 25, 2009 - link
PureVideo HD can be accessed by other players too. I believe WinDVD also accelerates via PureVideo HD now.It is kinda lame that you have to go buy a third party codec but that's because of the licensing involved.
dkreviews - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:Mgo9SI-CB3AJ:...">http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:Mg...p;cd=2&a...7Enigma - Thursday, March 12, 2009 - link
Unfortunately it's not. Just the first page of descriptions. There is nothing with the actual benchmarking.Glenn - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
Me too!RadnorHarkonnen - Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - link
I would love too, but...can you do a wittle favor ?You can mix to them if you have the time or......
You can test this all by itself. Imagine this fer a laptop. Ussully 2.5" lappy HDDs are dam slow.
PhotoFast CR-9000
http://www.amazon.com/PHOTOFAST-CR-9000-2-5-SSD-su...">http://www.amazon.com/PHOTOFAST-CR-9000...ctronics...
or the CR-9300 with 8 SD cards. 8 SD Cards in Raid.