Serge Jespers » ion http://www.webkitchen.be Life as an Adobe platform evangelist Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:35:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HD video (720p) on a netbook? With NVIDIA & Flash Player you can! http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/09/28/hd-video-720p-on-a-netbook-with-nvidia-flash-player-you-can/ http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/09/28/hd-video-720p-on-a-netbook-with-nvidia-flash-player-you-can/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:48:55 +0000 Serge Jespers http://www.webkitchen.be/?p=1695

If you’ve toyed around with netbooks, you know that they are not the fastest machines you can get these days. Playing HD video is out of the question… or… WAS out of the question. Today German site Notebook Journal posted a video showing a demo of a netbook running a new NVIDIA (partner in the Open Screen Project) graphics chip. The NVIDIA ION chip does hardware acceleration for Flash Video and – as you can see in the video below – does an amazing job at it.

The video starts by showing an HD clip on a device not using hardware acceleration. Around the 1:20 minute mark, you can see how big the difference is when using NVIDIA’s new chipset.

[Via CrunchGear & Engadget]

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