[olug] Cox DVR questions...

[Will Langford]

>>> If you do want hi-def video, however, make sure the PC is very powerful. My
>>> current media center is a dual-core pentium with 3Gigs of ram and an nVidia
>>> 8500 and it can't even do 720p.


Bwahaha, recent slashdot:

sammydee writes "Phoronix reports that GPU based video decoding
acceleration will be implemented in Gallium3d sometime this year.
Drivers currently using Gallium3d include the open source nouveau
driver for NVIDIA cards and experimental Intel GMA drivers. This is
definitely good news for anybody who has ever tried to play high
definition 1080p content on any CPU older than about a year. "

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/11/1210224&from=rss