HD computer content

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So I just purchased a new rig that I am pretty excited about (built by the boards MKE, who I have been told has excellent build quality) but while searching for a monitor I don’t seem to understand the HD content of a computer.

I can (but did not) purchase a video card or monitor that supports HD because I assumed whatever signal it will be getting (normally from gaming) is not in HD. Are there specific HD games that you can buy, or does getting all that HD stuff convert that comes of your computer into HD and can be watched in HD on the monitor.

I can understand with blu-rays, but I have not seen any games with a HD mark on them and wonder if I short changed myself by not purchasing HD stuff for gaming.

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HD is just the resolution.

My laptop is a 17" widescreen that I run 1920x1200 which is 16:10 so it can support 1080p (BluRay HD which is 1080 pixels high with bars on the top but can display all the content pixels.

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So I could have gotten a HD vid card and HD monitor and my games would be in HD?

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“HD” only refers to the resolution. I would be amazed if your computer that you just built wasn’t capable of displaying 1280x720 (or 1920x1080 for that matter).

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Correct. It wont be labeled as HD but you just check the resolution.

High Def just is based on the amount of vertical pixles in the image. The more pixels that make up a image, the sharper it looks.

A monitor and graphics card that can output a vertical resolution of 1080 or higher can display BluRay video in its true High Def on your screen.

I can run counterstrike on my laptop at 1920x1200 and it looks amazing and is higher than high def.

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no, AFAIK the “HD” just means that it’s HDCP certified… meaning that you can run blueray or any other HDCP protected media. Without a compliant video card and monitor, you’ll get a black screen.

However, at the moment at least, you can run AnyDVD-HD and it will strip HDCP in realtime for HD-DVD’s and BRD’s

“HD” is just a gimmick in a [computer] gaming aspect, computer games have been displayed in “hd” resolutions for at least the past 10 years now.

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Oh! Another tidbit.

My laptop has a HDMI output port on it. Since my video card can support 1920x1080 (the pixel count for 1080p HDTV) I can plug the HDMI cable into a TV and watch videos that I download in high def.

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Computers have been capable of “HD” long before the concept was introduced to TVs

My iMac is displaying nyspeed in 1080p as we speak hahaha, that being said, you will need a good graphics card to get that kind of resolution in games, good graphics card however means just about anything more powerful than a basic 256MB card, i’m running an ATI Radeon XT2600 HD Pro(the HD pro just means it comes with extra stuff realting to HD) and I regularly watch HD movies on here without issue. Odds are if you spent more than a grand on it then you are in the clear for HD.

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ohhhh, gotcha. Thanks! its an acer 22inch monitor with a 9800GT so I would hope HD is possible

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Hahaha yeah that’d do it, considering the 8800 GS can game in HD

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It probly is just look at the specs to see what the max resolution is. I think my old x850xt can display HD if i had a monitor that could go to a high enough res.

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the native resolution on that monitor is probably 1680X1050. That video card should be able to handle “most” games at that resolution without much problem

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Yes. I have a 9800 series in my laptop and it does 1920x1200 max res.

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Fuck, its a fucking viking.

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HD does NOT mean that it is HDCP certified. HDCP means that it is HDCP certified.

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right, but in computer speak, that’s generally what it means. Most people aren’t smart enough to know what HDCP refers to