[H]ardNews 9th Edition

UHDV Coming?

Check this out. A new standard in digital TV called Ultra High Definition Video is promising image resolution 16x better than anything out now. HDTV displays up to 1000 horizontal lines, the new UHDV can display 4000 lines! Whoa. Thanks to Brian Gross for the linkage.

UHDV displays images with 4,000 horizontal scanning lines, compared to the 1,000 offered by the current state-of-the-art high definition television (HDTV) technology and just 625 for standard TV broadcasts. When horizontal and vertical scanning are both taken into account a UHDV picture contains 16 times the number of pixels ? individual image components - of HDTV.

Aluminum EXOS:

Koolance has a new EXOS on the market. The changes are not just cosmetic, upcoming K8 support and top filling reservoir are just a few of the changes to this unit. We’ll have a full review of this unit in the near future.

Bring powerful liquid cooling technology to an existing computer! Koolance maintains its reputation for professional products by simplifying installation-- there is no need for special tools or case modifications. Utilizing a patent-pending design, the Exos™-Al connects to any PC through a standard rear card slot.

HyperTransport DirectPacket Specification:

The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, the nonprofit industry organization that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, today announced a major new release of the HyperTransport technology specification, the DirectPacket HyperTransport 1.1 Specification. The new specification provides four new capabilities: native packet handling for efficient transport of user packets through board-level systems, a robust retry protocol for high reliability server and communications systems, peer-to-peer routing for direct connection between I/O devices, and three new sets of Virtual Channels including 16 channels optimized for streaming traffic.