wannabeehwdev

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   by wannabeehwdev 11y ago

   True, but the upscaling hardware in most monitors and especially TVs sucks and adds extra frame(s) of latency, so ideally you'd upscale the picture on the FPGA to the display's native resolution (or at least something common like
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   by wannabeehwdev 11y ago

   That's what he did after his legitimate iPod repair and parts selling business became untenable due to shrinking component sizes.
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   by wannabeehwdev 11y ago

   Common FPGAs are limited to sup-GHz speeds. Common DACs (afaik) are parallel, letting them be driven at lower clock speeds than equivalent serial digital devices. 1920 x 1080 x 24bpp x (10/8 due to TMDS 8b/10b encoding) 60hz ~= 3.