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	Benson	2008-03-14 , 22:32
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens

I don't exactly get the hype here. Basically this is a slightly more advanced form of video-out, for high-resolution displays.

My Archos PMA430 did Svideo-out three years ago and the Pandora will do sVideo-out at 800x480. It's nice that Nokia's solution has DVI and Sub-VGA options, but for a lowest common denominator (and isn't that what you're looking for with a portable device?) nothing pretty much beats good old Svideo.

Unless, of course, you don't fall for the notion of sitting about staring at whatever content someone else feeds you, and hence have no TV in the house. Radio's OK, because you can listen while doing something else. But if I'm gonna sit and stare at a piece of entertainmeent or information, I'll jolly well run the show! Computers good, TV bad.

No matter your opinion on that, I'm sure there are many people who would rather have SVGA (Super-VGA, BTW) than s-vid, if only because they have a nicer computer monitor or (e.g. classroom) projector than TV.

Oh, and on the full HD issue: Exactly how many HD movies are you going to fit on that single microSD card on your N810?

Well, you can get about 4x as many on an N800, you can have multiple cards, or you could fail to acquire the slack-jaw screen-stare, and use that resolution for presentations, web browsing, etc.

And finally: Yes, people. All this was done in Bochum, only seconds before Nokia axed the place!

Yes, 40 million seconds before. They did their best to stop N8x0s from getting features, but you know big corporations move slow.

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