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Jon Peddie to speak at the GPU Technology Conference today

May 16th 2012

Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference is entering it's 2nd day today at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. You can follow the happenings at GTC HERE where you will be able to view a re-cap of Jen-Hsun's keynote along with press releases and updates from the show.

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EDITORIAL : How big is your monitor?  And how many do you have?

Techwatch May 11th 2012

There’s a lot of assumptions running around in this PC industry, based on hearsay and tidbits of data. We just finished running some tests on Nvidia’s new dual-GPU AIB, the GTX 690 (see p. 11). Nvidia wasn’t very happy with our first results, and told us we were being CPU-bound by doing the tests at HD. Aside from the counter-intuitive comments (after all, isn’t that exactly what a GPU is supposed to do—eliminate CPU limitations?), it also raises the question about what the potential buyers of this $999 AIB have on their desks. I suppose it is reasonable to …

OpenTV buys Wink for $101 million

Two well-established interactive TV companies have become one. OpenTV announced the acquisition of Wink TV from Liberty Broadband Interactive telelvision for approximately $101 million ni cash. This, say the companies, is the same amount paid by Liberty to acquire Wink a short while ago. Wink’s management will join that …Click here to read this news article

TiVo Mutates

TiVo joins the ranks of companies that claims to be a home gateway. At CES the company debuted a system that enables users to share the content downloaded on the machine to be shared throughout the home through a wireless connection. Linksys is providing the connection. In addition, the …Click here to read this news article

DivXNetworks and ATI team up to further the cause of low bitrate video

ATI and DIvX networks have announced new hardware and software optimizations to enable more efficient video DivX video decoding. The companies say that thanks to the work done to optimize video processing performance is increased when Radeon 9500 and Radeon 9700 boards are used. Click here to read this news article

ESS introduces DVD recording at CES.

The DVD chip companies are under pressure to deliver DVD recording and they’re delivering at CES. ESS announced their new digital video recorder platform and says they have locked up several wins with DVD manufacturers in China, Korea, and Japan. In fact, says ESS, they have 10 wins. …Click here to read this news article

On the standards front: Studios announce plans to release D-VHS videotapes

The Studios have come out in favor of D-VHS for secure recording. So far, Artisan Entertainment, Dreamworks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios announced that they will use JDV’s D-Theater version of D-VHS. The advantages of D-VHS are many. D-VHS tapes have a 44-Gbyte capacity, allowing them to …Click here to read this news article