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Re:The 4$ smartphone by Kurtz79 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:40AM (#11117142)
As good as it is, I don't think it can play 1080p videos on a 720p screen, without downscaling.
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Re:The 4$ smartphone by AstralStorm on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:29PM (#11121573)
Downscaling is relatively cheap, most smartphone SoCs have enough of a GPU to do that in hardware.
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Re:The 4$ smartphone by milankragujevic on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:16AM (#11117297)
I meant it can decode 1080p video.
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