Viva Avivo
Viva Avivo
Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming
Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" (Hachette/PublicAffairs), a non-fiction gaming and business history book that has earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Fortune, LA Review of Books, and many other publications.
"Upends the standard Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs/Mark Zuckerberg technology-creation myth... the story shines." -- The New York Times
Expertise I've been testing and reviewing computer and gaming hardware for over 20 years, covering every console launch since the Dreamcast and every MacBook...ever. Credentials
- Author of the award-winning, NY Times-reviewed nonfiction book The Tetris Effect; Longtime consumer technology expert for CBS Mornings
The fine folks at ATI were a bit bummed that we hadn't shown them any love for Avivo, their new platform of "hardware and software technologies that refine video capture and playback, and greatly improve display quality," that was officially announced today. You should check out the full details in ATI's press release.
Of particular interest are support for crazy resolutions such as 2,560x1,600, the ability to display 64 times as many colors as current hardware, and all kinds of comb filtering and analog-to-digital converters for primo video display--things to keep in mind for when we all switch to next-gen formats like HD-DVD or Blu-ray.
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