Sandbox: Video Cards  Page 1 2 3

Computers and TV What is the advantage of the new video cards? Speed and clarity.  The resolution is tighter for text and graphics. Video cards have been optimized for floating point computations, which is used to calculate the anti-aliasing, mapping, motion blur and depth of field required for 3D imaging. There are two development platforms for video hardware: DirectX, introduced by Microsoft in 1996, and OpenGL, created by Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s. The distinction between TV and computers is getting blurred since all TV broadcasts became digital in 2006, although the Computer Mama finds the convergence of these two worlds a little odd. Isn’t TV a passive activity for couch potatoes? Whereas computers just sit there until you interact with them. People like to be entertained, and computer graphics offer better resolution than a TV. That’s it from the Sandbox, where only the latest and greatest survive!

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