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Have you heard of the THIRD HD format??
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantMark Harrison
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That's all true John.  AMD has since added their own features and are no longer clones.  But, to switch from Intel to AMD, you still only needed a new motherboard.  You existing hard and software still works.

With this new format, you need new hardware (player) and software (movies).  You can't re-use any part of your system except for the TV and sound system.

If I want to upgrade my computer at home, I can pick up AMD or Intel and perhaps a new motherboard and bring my system back up with my existing OS, software, mouse, keyboard, etc.  If I want to upgrade disc player, I need a new player and I have to buy all new movies to play on it.
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Everybody counted AMD out, too, in the CPU wars.  Same old lines about too late to the party, and can't possibly catch up, etc.  Well, they ended up putting some serious hurt on Intel, and we as computer users are all the better for it.


That's very true.  But don't forget that AMD was basically trying to create a clone of the Intel chip.  This new format is trying to create something new and different.  I think it's way to late to introduce something completely different at this point.


Their initial venture was to create a cheaper Intel clone, true.  But that very quickly divurged and took its own path.  The only similarity between them is that they both use instructions based on the X86 architecture.  There are two things though, that I suspect may allow them to really put the whammy on Intel.  AMD bought ATI, which will allow them an unprecedented integration of CPU and GPU that will have a major impact on the industry.  And, their quad core CPU is actually a single wafer with a true quad core (which will allow much greater processing increases), while Intel is using two dual core modules piggybacked on another wafer because of heat problems.


The primary difference at the moment is that AMD uses the DirectConnect Architecture versus the Intel Front Side Bus Architecture. Everything runs at processor speeds in the AMD, no FSB bottleneck.
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Which causes the tempratures to be higher with AMD then with Intel.

How dit we get from a third high def format to AMD and Intel temprature
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