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AMD bites back over Nvidian FUD
AT NVIDIA'S recent Editor's Day to promote its Geforce 8800GT, the firm claimed that rival AMD's Radeon 2900XT was incapable of HD playback at 2560x1600 resolution.
Nvidia even produced a slide trumpeting the difference and this had AMD seething.
Slide that caused Ed-Day
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While Nvidia's own GeForce 8800GTX and 8800Ultra can't do full-screen in resolutions above 1920x1200, due to its single-key HDCP, this is not true of the ATI Radeon 2900XT - a chip that got beaten by the 8800 in almost every other test.
At AMD's Spider Launch event here in Warsaw AMD said several times that the 3850 and 3870 work flawlessly in 2560x1600.
And to prove it, AMD's tech guys - besides ton of 3850 and 3870 systems - also brought along a system based on an AMD Athlon 64 6400+ on a 580X chipset with two Radeon 2900XT boards running in Crossfire.
AMD Techie shows HDCP playback on HP's 30-inch display
The system ran a full-screen playback of BBC's excellent documentary Planet Earth in 2560x1600 resolution.
Were a little disappointed the techies had opted not to bring a long a system equipped with 8800GTX/Ultra graphics cards.
All, they said, in the spirit of political correctness. ยต
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Fighting about who has the most and best DRM, sad really isn't it.
I do remember writing on that old article, that NVIDIA said 'cannot play back HDDVD and Blu-ray', instead of 'or Blu-ray'.

Now, in english grammar, this means that if HD DVD worked, but Blu-ray doesn't, then NVIDIA are, technically, not lying, or getting their facts wrong. They are merely taking advantage of technicalities in grammar which would not be picked up be the regular reader.

The test you guys did was an HD DVD played on the Dell monitor, which, for some reason, you hate, and that worked, but you didn't actually play Blu-ray, which is what I wanted to request.

They say a good hardware review will always give a full rundown of settings used, and anything else that should be tested, but in this case, only HD DVD was tested, and not Blu-ray, so, again, technically, NVIDIA may not be lying...