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Old 21-Jun-2007, 20:59   #77
Dave Baumann
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Originally Posted by ERP View Post
It was designed by the WebTV group I believe.
Evidently not.

Xenos was the first implementation of the Avivo display engine and the scaler is used from the display pipeline there. But, yes, there is specific hardware to do it.

http://www.beyond3d.com/images/revie...o/pipe-big.jpg

Xenos would be providing the "display pipelines" functionality in the diagram above (although I suspect that the logic would be limited to 1 display).
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