POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Ooo... : Re: Ooo... Server Time
6 Sep 2024 17:20:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Ooo...  
From: Invisible
Date: 20 Jan 2009 05:24:55
Message: <4975a677@news.povray.org>
>> Mmm, OK. I didn't think anybody had filmed much in HD yet.
> 
> I think almost every film has been recorded in HD for many years, if not 
> decades.  Judging by the number of HD discs available.

Yeah - because nobody would take SD content and put it onto an HD disk 
and attempt to sell it as HD. No sir! ;-)

>>> or just get a play station 3 and you get an uber amount of computing 
>>> power too.
>>
>> And the ability to not run any programs that might take advantage of 
>> that power. :-}
> 
> Why not?  You can install Linux on there very easily (Sony even put a 
> menu option for "Install other OS" in the menu).  I think to take 
> advantage of the cell processor and its 8 cores you need to use a 
> special compiler, but you can certainly make your own code for it.  Just 
> need someone to port POV ;-)

Hmm, interesting...


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