Thursday, May 29, 2008
Teknision, Open Screen Project & FineTune TV
Thursday, May 29, 2008 
This kind of blows my mind a bit, however I don't have any details yet. What I am really most curious to know is about a television set that has the embedded player in it. In the demo linked to here, I see that there really aren't any animations happening -- a result of spotty performance issues? Perfectly understandable. Once GPU surfacing and compositing could reliably be rolled out that might make a huge impact.
In regards to animation performance at larger sizes (set top boxes mainly):
Would such a set top box have hardware acceleration somehow enabled for the rendering? I'd imagine that you'd need a hi-power processor or GPU to deliver smooth animation, etc. Even on a 16:9 HD monitor on an Octo-Intel Mac with a kick ass video card, large animations can chug a bit.
Would such a set just have a super-cheap PC powering the display, or perhaps some proprietary graphical rendering method?
Open Screen is really sweet, but I think the whole thing (for at least set top boxes, etc.) is how to smoothly render UI.
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Greg North said...“Teknision is always on the cutting edge it seems. I can't wait to see how this turns out.”
