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Now, if i use wmp to play a hd video the playback is flawless. The zotac zboxhdid34bru is a small laptopsized allinone minipc designed for watching highdefinition bluray 1080p videos straight on your home hdtv. Nextgeneration nvidia ion graphics deliver unrivaled levels of performance and high definition video decode capabilities to the zotac zbox id41 plus minipc with nvidia cuda. For the movieencoding test, we took the microsoft magic of.
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