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Aaron Brezenski (Intel)

Aaron Brezenski has been at Intel (Chandler, AZ) since 1995 and has been a product engineer for most of that time. He currently manages a team of product development engineers in STTD. He is entirely unconnected with Intel's Graphics design, proliferation, and marketing, but his nefarious purpose in ISN Blogspace is to highlight Intel Integrated Graphics in the Home Theater PC space from an end-user perspective.

Welcome to G45! Better (but still imperfect...)

By Aaron Brezenski (Intel) (5 posts) on August 14, 2008 at 11:34 am
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The first couple weeks of motherboard availability on Intel's latest and greatest integrated graphics chipset have been tumultous. First, our competition threw together a demo booth which stated baldly that HP laptops with G(M)45 did not accelerate Blu-ray at all while theirs, naturally, did. Of course, the Intel system was running Vista AeroGlass while the competitive system [...]

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Less Is More: Why 24fps is Important in Home Theater PCs

By Aaron Brezenski (Intel) (5 posts) on May 19, 2008 at 4:55 pm
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When I play games, I want my PC to be able to generate as many frames per second as possible; it's a measure of the strength of the CPU and GPU solution which is used consistently in gaming benchmarks to show which processor and/or graphics card is better.  My PC can beat up your PC [...]

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HDMI Audio Case Study: Denon AV Receivers

By Aaron Brezenski (Intel) (5 posts) on May 12, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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When The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good I've already discussed the benefits to Intel Graphics and HDMI Audio in a previous post, and complained about the HDCP repeater mode bug (still unresolved as of graphics driver release 15.9.2) which forces people to use gray-market software if they want to use Intel HDMI Audio to [...]

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HDMI Audio: Intel's Biggest Little Secret In Home Theater PCs

By Aaron Brezenski (Intel) (5 posts) on April 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm
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I won't say my last post here was harsh-- it was heartfelt and survives a reread without me flinching-- but I wanted to be fair and illustrate why I think it's a big issue. What competitive advantage are we squandering / have we squandered here with HDCP issues over HDMI? I won't go too deep into [...]

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HDCP, HDMI, Repeaters, and You (Well, Me, Anyway)

By Aaron Brezenski (Intel) (5 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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Hi, I'm Aaron Brezenski, and welcome to my blog. I'd planned on a big introduction and discussion of what I hope to accomplish here, and I have about half of that written, but I'm not the important bit here, the high- and lowlights of Intel graphics in the Home Theater PC space are. My plan is [...]

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