2old2play.com — What is ANNA? It’s Microsoft’s ace in the hole, their secret weapon that makes the Xbox 360 graphically look better today than Playstation 3. ANNA is a chip that does nothing but figure out how to display your game at top visual quality no matter what your dash display settings are or what your TV can do… she is a scaling chip.
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mchampsterJan 4, 2007
Right, and when I pointed it out above, I got dugg down. You get dugg up for saying the same thing as me.
judge373Jan 4, 2007
What are you talking about? It's basically a more in depth article than the one linked to on this page.
alchemeronJan 4, 2007
"article says ana, digg title says anna."It does now. It didn't before.
stung47000Jan 4, 2007
@apocI interpret Scott Henson's statement having the key word "preforming", meaning 1080p content is a trade-off as many other people have said here. Not "FUD", just a guy's opinion. When you see an A-list game running on the PS3 at 1080p then that guy will have to eat his words. So far I still think he's right.
blackknight6Jan 4, 2007
@HappyScrappyI responded to your post as well, take a look. I already have explained how, and linked, how missing information can be replaced with information that is close to the original. You then tell me that it can't happen and tell ME to look it up. I already have shown a positive and now you want me to prove a negative, nice try. If the TV's have scaling chips why would the 360 also have one? Your argument doesn't make sense because of that question. It is because the idea by having the chip on the 360 is to have one that is better than the one the TV has, if at all.
blackknight6Jan 4, 2007
Who wants to correct this guy? I will just point out one thing.Wouldn't it be a bad thing that a game that came out 2 months ago looks just like a more-than-a-year-old 360 game? It is not like PS3 devs just got the kits 6 months before the PS3 released, they have had the dev kits for atleast 16 months. They had them atleast 6 months before the PS3 was announced to come out spring 06. If anything, the PS3 launch titles got extended deadlines...Eh, I can't help it...VGA does higher resolution than component cables put out. If I had a big monitor that could support my video cards maximum resolution, 2048x1536, I could do that over VGA (though I would use DVI like I am now). Compared to 1080P (1920x1080) that is obviously much higher.You then talk about the 360 GPU and compare it to an ATi graphics card that is 2 generations old (when counting the DX10 generation), in other words, the card that competed with Nvidia 7000 series cards. You then talk about DX10 how it is the future but then you don't realize that the 360 GPU meets more of the requirements for DX10 compliance than the PS3 GPU.Now your whole post could be sarcasm but I can't tell, it went from possibly serious to capslock fun.
ptaylorJan 5, 2007
@ BlackKnightI called it. The "new" 360. <a class="user" href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/the-second-xbox-360-revealed-codename-zephyr/">http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/the-second-xbox-360-revealed-codename-zephyr/</a>I didn't say that the 360 will be a failure, you said that. A product with a shelf life of more than 5 years is too long for Micro$oft. I'm surprised that the second 360 is coming out so soon. Micro$oft supports Office longer than this. Hope that the current 360 owners won't be too pissed off at Micro$oft.Why so hostile, BK? Keep praising your shiny quarter...
blackknight6Jan 5, 2007
@ptaylorDo you not remember the PS2 revisions? There were all sorts, new slim ones, network adapters, all kinds. You act like Sony hasn't done it before and won't do it with the PS3. There are already rumors about new PS3's also. This happens to all electronic devices, and many are successful, look at the damn ipod, that ting has ALL sorts of different kinds and no one complains. Your logic is flawed:If they don't add to the hardware, MS sucks, if they do add to it, MS sucks.Give me a break...