Adobe is a bit bloated, and doesn't seem, to take advantage of VGA - I had high hopes for Foxit, as their PC PDF Reader is so good. But if I zoom out enough to see much text, the resolution completely goes to pieces.
Not that useful....
Any other VGA PDF Readers on the horizon?
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I have been doing a loong research on the web without luck about this. This device has a good processor for gaming,
but the god damned screen resolution screws everything up having to scale the 320x240 graphics to 640x480.
It's not only the work of having to double every pixel on screen, but also to redraw 4 times the ammount of pixels that it was meant to.
The pixel rendering rate of this graphics chip can't handle 640x480 since it has no hardware acceleration for such a task.
I keep finding that Real VGA, 96DPI, 128DPI crap arround wich doesnt actually do anything but change the sizes of the fonts/enviroment
while rettaining the same 640x480 resolution.
I'm no developer, so im sending an s.o.s. call to any dev, technician or whoever with the knowlegde to tell me if there is a possible way
to switch the video resolution to REAL 320x240 or if its possible to hack this device video driver to use 320x240 instead of 640x480.
Thanks in advance for reading.
I just realiced that maybe there is no need to modify any drivers at all, since i believe this device ati graphics chip is used on other devices running at 320x240 from htc aswell. Can someone verify this please?.
Even if it was possible, real 320x240 would physically cover 320x240 px on your device and therefore leave the better area of the screen unused. I doubt that it is possible to output QVGA and stretch it to match the screen and I dare not even think about how crappy that would look... Apart from games everything runs nice and fast and the Universal is quite responsive. Videos can be played back just fine in 320x240 and run perfectly with a decent player. Which apps are causing trouble for you?
Im having a hard time with high requirement games, like Legacy 2, Raging thunder,XIII zeal, Ancient evil, *.swf flash files... not to mention demoscene intros for ppc.
About the 320x240 output, probably the lcd panel can scale it to 640x480 with its hardware just like a regular tft monitor. It wouldnt look bad at all, remember how games look. Yeah you can actually see the the pixels with pixel doubling, but even with pixel doubling it still looks good enough since the screen size isn't that big to have such a huge impact.
I still believe that if this is possible it's worth a try, atleast for users that use this device for entertainment and gaming.
This really seems like a neato computer, but I have some questions that need to be answered before I buy one:
1. Can I play Counter-strike 1.6/Condition Zero on it? What about Unreal Tournament 2004? What frame rates can I expect?
2. How responsive is the touch pad? I tried the touch pad on another laptop in a local store and it had very annoying input lag.
3. Do you think that 384 kbps would be enough to play CS 1.6 and UT2K4 online? I'm not completely sure if I can get my providers Turbo 3G service on to my sim card. Also, Shift only supports 3.6 and not 7.2 mbit right? Will a 7.2 mbit sim card work in it anyway?
4. Do you think it'd support my Trekstor DVB-T USB stick? The minimum requirement is for it is 800 mhz and DirectX 9 and I really don't like being right on the minimum. I'm guessing that I'm not going to get 800x480 fullscreen tv on it?
5. How good is it with movies and recorded TV shows? Avi, divx, mpeg, wmv etc, can it handle standard definition in full screen? Some quick examples would be avi at 576x320 and wmv at 640x480.
6. Is there any chance I could get a photo of the interpolated 1024x600 side-by-side with a photo of the native 800x480?
Thanks in advance
Do not count on a extreme gaming experience on the shift.
Counterstrike 1.6 might work, with low settings and WindowsXP installed.
Like Quake3 arena plays like a charm
MY cynergy XS USB DVB stick show full screen shows at perfect speed.
Computer is monotask during playing, using anything else will slow thinks to a crawl. But I watch TV shows on widescreen everyday. Main difficulty is to get the antenna to work...
For movies, you can play any size using coreplayer.
Unreal turnament can be palyed also with a reasonable frame rate. You will have to play on low resolution, and will have occasional lags. I suggest you look for another device for intense gaming.
I'm not looking for an extreme gaming experience on a device like this, just something besides surfing the Internet and watching videos, because I can do that just fine with my cellphone.
Was that Quake III Arena video real-time rendered on the Shift or was that just a video? I'm very suspicious because I don't see anything plugged in to the usb port and I don't see him using the touch pad.
Hasn't anyone tried playing CS 1.6/CZ? I don't think they'd be too demanding for the Shift with an 800 mhz processor as the recommended spec. Maybe even Counter-Strike: Source at the lowest settings? It has an 800 mhz minimum.
@thaihugo: The "using anything else" part makes me a bit worried since I'd like to use a card reader as well for the encrypted channels, because here in Sweden we only have one decent free tv channel. That's better than nothing I guess.
You mean UT2K4 right? I didn't see screenshots of it until today and I didn't realise that it had relatively good graphics since I assumed that it had far more primitive graphics than UT3. Definitely worth a try then. I just hope that you didn't mean UT99
Right now what I'm the most curious about is if I can play Counter-strike 1.6/CZ/Source on it, and how responsive the touch pad is. How noticeable is the delay on the touch pad? I don't expect it to be good enough for a twitch shooter but it'd be nice if it's quick and precise enough for surfing without using the touch screen to click on everything.
Shift is not that powerfull
if you are interested in gaming the everun note may be a choice for you. www.umpcportal.com has tested it a few days ago. But it has probably a less responsive touchscreen.
I leave tomorrow for a long trip to Europe and I am trying to get some videos ready for the plane ride. I was trying to decide if buying Coreplayer is worth it. I thought I had read something about only a certain version has hardware acceleration support.
Also which video codec/container is the best to encode with. I have some 1080p/720p movies that I was going to encode down to the proper resolution. I have used the HD Touch HD Video Converter found on XDA but I don't like using it for batch encoding where the files have different aspect ratios.
Thanks for the help.
ALSO: I am running the stock T-Mobile rom with no registry hacks or driver patches. Any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks!!
The Touch HD video converter (current v1.21) works fine for me, with any mix of aspect ratios as input. For each video if the ratio is 16/9 or wider it will fit to long edge, if it's less than 16/9 it will fit to short edge so it's always correct ("crop to fit.." not checked).
I do set it to 800-1000kbps though, as the HD2 handles it with no trouble and it looks better. I play back with Coreplayer.
The only gripe I have with is it the slowness... but it's not so bad, I just let it run for hours in the background if needed, thanks to the batch processing.
Thanks for the reply. When you convert videos of different resolutions at the same time in a batch do you just select the full screen (800x480) resolution for output? When you do that it doesn't distort the encoded video? I assumed that you would have to readjust the resolution for each video to 800x(whatever the proper hight for that aspect ratio). This is how I have only used the program.
I was able to play a 2gb+ 720p flawlessly from my 4gb Kingston thumb drive. AVI using Moboplayer.
The Good
Gotta love widgets
Love the USB port
I did a little side-by-side with the StevePad...
Small font in a web page is easier to read than on iPad2 (my girlfriend's)
The back camera takes better pictures than iPad
The Bad
Picture colours are a little washed next to iPad
The cross-hatch pixel pattern can be seen on white backgrounds, not so much on the iPad
GUI still not as smooth as iPad...but close
The Ugly
GPS takes forever to lock - some workarounds
No ad-hoc networks allowed - but there's a fix for that
Activesync not supported, or OWA via native browser (or Dolphin) but Firefox works
I love the Iconia but Honeycomb could be a little more polished. Can't wait for updates cuz I want to keep this tab.
Hope the great developers here stick with this model for a bit.
EDIT: I traded my A500 in for another and no more cross-hatch pixel pattern!!
i had a 4GB or so mkv that a played from USB via mobiplayer. It made me use software to decode hence very choppy. 720p. Just a silly test to see what would happen. Love the USB.
As far as video codecs, all Tegra 2 devices are cursed with poor codec support, thus poor hardware acceleration support. Nvidia talks a lot of media smack, but does not support the chipset to back it up.
Video brought a wonderful world, originates from life but higher than life, there are things we can't achieve in reality, but can be implemented in the video, video's world is colorful beyond imagination, it brought great pleasure to our life, we also like to put some classic and wonderful some good video collection, Some video memory is very big,But many video formats, and there are a lot of format won't be able to see in the iPhone, which requires format converter, how we can't use the format conversion into the iPhone can see format？ask for help!!!