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Xoom and the Android tablet experienceXoom and the Android tablet experiencePosted Apr 20, 2011 8:19 UTC (Wed) by linusw (subscriber, #40300)Parent article: Xoom and the Android tablet experience
Given that this is one of the first nVidia Tegra based devices (dual core Cortex A9 ARM I think) and that nVidia are known for 3D performance it is a bit surprising that these things doesn't even surface in the review. Is all that extra bang worth it?
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Xoom and the Android tablet experience Posted Apr 20, 2011 9:57 UTC (Wed) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
What I would really need is a tablet which can play the HD video I am taking with my 2 year old camera, at full 1080p HD Video (60fps), 25 Mbits/sec.
It is not even amazing to see most new and "powerful" portable PC freeze the display within the first few seconds of playback with Linux/VLC, within the first second with windows - whatever the display video card - and whatever 2D or 3D accelerated (acceleration seems not useful for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video playback). It seems only a new desktop PC - or the 400 GBP camera itself plugged into the TV on HDMI - can play this sort of thing. I lately brought a tablet which they said would play full 1080p HD Video, but obviously it skips frames like mad, and if you read the docs (after opening the box) it is limited to 16 Mbits/sec. Obviously no source available for that tablet, where half the functions described in the docs (like a working SD card slot) do not work at all.
Xoom and the Android tablet experience Posted Apr 20, 2011 10:14 UTC (Wed) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
Sorry, video I am trying to play are 1920p, i.e. 1920 x 1080 (60 fps/ 24Mbps).
Xoom and the Android tablet experience Posted Apr 20, 2011 11:13 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]
That *is* 1080p. The number gives the number of horizontal lines, the 'i' or 'p' tells what order the lines are in. 1920p would be 3400 wide to match the 1080p ratio.
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