Hoping to bridge the gap for HD DVD-supporting early adopters, LG said Tuesday that it would continue to support HD DVD in the wake of Toshiba's announcement.
Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."
Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.
I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.
However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.
I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.
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Boy, LG's the life of the party, huh?
well they are just making dual format players right? well I guess thats a good way to save HD-DVD's Current library of movies, that way early adopters of the format wont have to pay for the same movie again.
I guess they figure they can make more money selling combo players than single format players. I wonder how long they will keep it up for. You would think if you owned lots of HD DVDs then you would already have an HD DVD player so if you wanted blu-ray you would just buy another stand-alone. That way atleast you would save money. Those LGs aren't exactly cheap.
I suspect they will keep releasing HD DVD/blu-ray combo players so all the current HD DVD owners can keep there HD DVD collections still.
However expect them to stop supporting them soon
know how to classify this. Do I file it under "stupid", "kind", "confused" or "wanting to drag things out longer then needed"