ASUS Splendid HD1 Video Enhance Card Upgrades Generic VGA to True HDMI

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Catering to the new era in multimedia technology, ASUS, producer of high quality audio and visual solutions, has announced the new ASUS Splendid HD1 video enhance card. This astounding piece of hardware is able to increase picture quality for HD content to deliver sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs. It can even enhance lower resolution inputs by recovering image clarity when viewing legacy content for viewing on LCD TV or monitors; as well as provide true HDMI with audio and HDCP.




Splendid HD Engine Upgrades Generic VGA to True HDMI
With the implementation of ASUS' exclusive Splendid technology into a video add-on card, users will be able to enjoy full 1080P entertainment on their monitors. Able to provide an authentic ASUS LCDTV video solution to any PC, this card helps fill in the gap between viewing content on the PC and traditional Consumer Electronic devices. It is also able to provide HDMI upgrades with true Audio & HDCP certified protection - allowing users to enjoy enhanced PC video and audio quality to easily change your generic PCs into true HTPCs for an outstanding multimedia experience.

Splendid HD1 Automatic Display Mode for Ultimate Viewing
The Splendid HD1 is able to automatically select the best possible display modes to deliver exceptional quality visuals, and includes the following:

Photo Mode
Tailored for photo viewing or daily computing, the Splendid HD1 increases color performance and dynamic contrasting, so images of the weather are always clearer, colors of the flowers are more vibrant, and photos will look much better.

Video Mode
Fine tuned to deliver action movies in the best possible way, the Splendid HD1 focuses on image edge enhancing to minimize blurring caused by today's LCD monitors, so that users can see clear bullet trails even in the most chaotic scenes. For drama movies, the increased color depth and contrast allows the smallest details hidden in the darkest corners to be seen.

Game Mode
For FPS gamers, enemies will seem to jump out from the blurry background in the most adrenaline rushing FPS games. For RPG/Action gamers, true cinematic gaming with a Demo mode* is also provided so that users can compare the impact of the processing in several configurations.

* An ASUS graphics card is required to enable this function

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[MrW]

Marketing overload! *Brain explodes*

Interesting product though. If the price is right...

 

[WarEagleAU]

Seems like something Id be interested, as was said, if the price is right.

 

[OnBoard]

Hmm I see this only useful to thse who use integrated graphics and miss HDMI. Although I only see two DVI ports so I don't quite get the hype. Even then there are very cheap GPUs with DVI & HDMI like HD3450 and if the motherboard already has a PCI-E 1x slot it will have a 16x too. So this has to be cheap to compete.

All those marketing hype modes are already available in video card driver setting But if it's like $30-40€ then I can see this selling.

 

[Baum]

please make it for pci-express notebooks, there are enough of them out to get a market for it and cpu power isn't the question on them but built in VGA wich is weak and far away from HD Video.

I've noticed it when i bought a notebook where i was able to change the gpu as it was mxm type and now it's like a new one thanks to that

 

[Bluefox1115]

i doubt this will be $40... probably starting at $99 maybe $199.. depends on what exactly this thing is packing.. it seams like they are making a re-attempt at the Aegia Physix card..

 

[Dangle]

This is retarded. This is exactly what an HD TV would do anyway. If you plug in an analog signal, it has to convert it to send it to the screen. gay waste of money.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

This is retarded. This is exactly what an HD TV would do anyway. If you plug in an analog signal, it has to convert it to send it to the screen. gay waste of money.

Your HDTV upconverts color settings?

It increases resolutions through an upconversion filter?

What HDTV has these capabilities?

If you say HDTV's already do it lets see some linkage.

It does Dynamic filtering, no HDTV's fliter the signal and them upconvert the color and video.

But if its priced fairly is another thing. It should cost $40 as you guys said.

 

[Dangle]

All upconversion does, is stretch the lower resolution image to fit the screen, and use interpolation to fill in all of the pixels in between. If you plug in a 640x480 (or RCA composite cable from a shitty dvd player) source into a 1920x1080 screen, and it fills the screen and you don't see huge blocks, your TV has an upscaler.

 

[DaedalusHelios]

All upconversion does, is stretch the lower resolution image to fit the screen, and use interpolation to fill in all of the pixels in between. If you plug in a 640x480 (or RCA composite cable from a shitty dvd player) source into a 1920x1080 screen, and it fills the screen and you don't see huge blocks, your TV has an upscaler.

Yes and no.

Your HDTV picks the closest resolution to it that it displays. 1080p televisions have different display modes in their software. They don't upconvert, they stretch.

Dynamic upconversion has to be done with a separate piece of hardware. Unless you have a special exotic HDTV that is super high end I haven't heard about. Its just not common.