HDCP: GC and monitor nightmare. Power supplies return rates

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HDCP: GC and monitor nightmare.   Posted on 13/01/2006 at 13:13 by Vincent

	We have two bad pieces of news for you. Which one do you want first? - The first is that almost all monitors sold up until now (CRT and TFT) won't be capable of displaying HD movies. - The second is that graphic cards suffer from the same problem. > HDCP: The graphic card and monitor nightmare

Power supplies return rates   Posted on 13/01/2006 at 02:22 by Marc

	We published hard drives return rate a few days ago. Today is the turn of power supplies. We remind you that these figures come from a major French sales website and were recorded during the first 6 months of 2005. The products here have been working from 6 months to 1 year. Here are the figures: Antec : 2.24% Enermax: 4.06% Fortron: 1.65% Hiper: 3.11% Tagan: 5.62% Fortron is in the lead followed by the Antec and Hiper. Enermax and most of all Tagan's figures are high. Tagan's power supplies low noise level because of low fan rotation speed doesn't seem to go along with reliability…