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post #1 of 5
1/22/04 at 10:25pm
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I don't think anyone will find this useful but I took a video of my Dell Inspiron 8100 and Area-51m playing DVDs at the same time. The 9 minutes of video uncompressed is 1.72GB. If I compress it with an MPEG2 codec I can get it down to 137MB. Still far too large to download so I tried to change the frame size. I lowered it to 240x180 (I believe), chopped off all but 22 seconds and encoded it as a Windows Media player Video (WMV). With the video compressed this much I think it is pretty much useless but because I spent so long on this project I am posting it anyway. Do with it what you will. The video wouldn't be good enough for me to make a major buying decision (like spending $4000 on a laptop). This file is about 575 KB.

Here is the video
  • The Dell Inspiron 8100 is on the left playing Enemy Under Fire
  • The Area51 is on the right playing Black Hawk Down.

If anyone wanted I could do 640x480 for about 10 seconds and that would put me around 37 MB or so.
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post #2 of 5
1/23/04 at 12:57am
wow I cant see a thing...thanks for trying though
I love my AW anyways!
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post #3 of 5
1/23/04 at 3:10am
what about trying to load the same game and see how that goes?
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post #4 of 5
1/23/04 at 5:22am
Em, what exactly is the comparison subject here O_o .... (?)
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post #5 of 5
1/23/04 at 10:17am
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To compare DVD & display quality from two different laptops.

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Originally Posted by Robo-Kai
Em, what exactly is the comparison subject here O_o .... (?)
The goal was to provide DVD comparison of two completely different laptops. I wanted something for people who are considering buying an A-51m to use as a comparison. I thought that I would be able to see the difference with my video camera (I have a very nice JVC DV camera). But you can't. You really do need to see DVD playback live. Taking a video just won't due. I didn't know that before I started this little project. But since it took me so long to do I didn't want to just toss the video into the bit bucket. So I posted it even though I knew it was pretty much useless.

Without ANY compression; I mean straight from the video camera the difference is still hard to see. No matter what the resolution of the video or frame size it is still hard to do any real comparison. I didn't know that until after I tried it. The only real way to do a comparison is to put the exact same video on both computers but I don't have two copies of the same movie. And anyway as i said unless you see the video live you really can't make a buying decision.
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