Your source for everything home theater & HTPC related
Re-Launch Giveaway #5- Nvidia Geforce GT 430
THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED, THANKS TO ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!
Is everyone still enjoying the contest?? I surely hope so, because we still have a TON of prizes! Given the upcoming holiday weekend upon us, we decided to have a special prize and make it last longer than the rest.
Thanks to our friends at NVIDIA, we have up for grabs a brand new EVGA GT 430 Video Card with 3D & HDMI 1.4a support!!!! While it's not exactly the same, you can get an idea about the bit streaming support of these new awesome 4-series graphics cards from Andrew Van Til's Review of the GTS 450 card.
The EVGA GT 430 has arrived. Tap into the horsepower of the GPU for a visually-charged boost on your favorite applications. Edit your photos & HD videos and push the limits of your Web experience with a new generation of GPU-accelerated browsers like Internet Explorer 9. Boost your gaming performance with the next generation gaming architecture built from the ground up for DirectX 11 and take 3D home with the latest Blu-ray 3D movies.
The EVGA GT 430 supports NVIDIA PhysX for a new class of physical gaming interaction, and CUDA technology which allows you to unlock the power of the GPU to accelerate the most demanding tasks.
Read below for the steps on how to win the Nvidia GT 430 graphics card!!
HOW TO ENTER
To be eligible to win the prize, YOU MUST reply to this post below with an answer to the following: How much of a premium would you pay for 3D capability on your next TV?
For this prize, we'll once again allow additional entries via Facebook and Twitter (if your twitter/Facebook name doesn't match your MissingRemote username, make sure you mention your it in each submission below).
-
For Twitter:- Follow us at Twitter @MissingRemote
- Tweet the answer to the question above
- Include the following hashtag #MRGT430
- AND include the following URL http://bit.ly/mrnvidia
- Don't forget your username if it's not the same as your MissingRemote username!
-
For Facebook:- Visit our Facebook Fan Page and click the
Like button - And reply to the Nvidia contest status
- Don't forget your username on both if they don't match your username below!
- Visit our Facebook Fan Page and click the
Good luck everyone 
RULES/TERMS
As mentioned above, each user is eligible for up to 3 entries into this contest. Every prize will have its own prize definitions, so make sure to check the rules!
Entries will be accepted from 12:01AM PDT on Wednesday, November 24, 2010 through 11:59AM PDT on Monday, November 29, 2010. Winner will be selected b December 5, 2010.
- This contest is unfortunately only available to US residents in one of the 50 states. Sorry to our international readers, but we are looking into expanding our prize packages in the future.
- You are only allowed to enter using each method once. Multiple entries will disqualify you.
- Must be a registered user to be eligible to win (remember, if you are entering additional entries when applicable via Twitter/Facebook you must mention your MissingRemote username in that entry)
- Editors and staff, and associated family of staff are not eligible to win
- Each prize may have its own rules for eligibility established by Product Sponsors, please read the directions carefully
- Users may reply to a thread as many times as desired, but only one post will be counted towards the drawing
- Winners will be notified via e-mail, as well as posted in a news post on the home page of MissingRemote.com; Failure to respond within 72 hours will result in a forfeit of prize and the prize will be re-drawn
- Most prizes will be shipped to winners via either USPS Priority Mail or Fedex Ground and tracking numbers will be provided. It is the recipient's responsibility to coordinate receipt of item.
- Some prizes will be shipped to winners directly from Product Sponsor--tracking will still be provided to those as well
- Prize packages are in excellent condition and have not been used outside of for review purposes and are delivered in AS-IS condition
- Any attempt to circumvent contest rules will cause ineligibility for user
- Mike Garcen's blog
- Login or register to post comments
Comments
I would probably pay $300 extra once sports become ubiquitous in 3D.
None. Don't care for it.
Nothing, I am not sold on it.
DRB
Nothing. One day it will be like HD where every TV will have it for no extra cost. I am fine with waiting till then..
Not one cent!
No premium for 3D. Holding out for something that doesn't require glasses.
I think I'd be willing to pay somewhat of a premium maybe 10% for HD sports capabilities
None, I'm still not sure about 3D either.
No 3D premium for me. I consider 3D a bit of a gimmick and I don't like how it is being hyped. I don't need it and I don't want it.
not yet sold on the 3D media, waiting for it to go mainstream and also hate to wear glasses
3D isn't such an important feature to me that I'd pay more to have it.
$.03
By the time I buy my next TV I suspect that that most sets will include it.
I would pay a couple hundred bucks extra.
None.
Not a dime, unless I did not have to wear those stupid glasses, and even then I doubt I would use it.
I'm not buying into the 3d craze yet, however I havent fully used it yet... maybe for some 3d gaming though.
3D TV is just a fad that by this time next year will be gone. I have no interest in it and would never spend more money on a tv to get that extra functionality.
I disagree. While I may have no use for it, numerous companies do and will continue to promote it over the next several years. They have made too big an inve stment to see it die within a year.
To be honest I haven't even seen a 3D demo on any of the 3D tvs out there. So at this point I wouldn't really pay a premium.
Once the requirement of glasses disappear, I'll pay an extra 10%.
Right now I wouldn't pay too much of a premium. Maybe $200. Waiting for a fully capable, economic, 3D home projector solution.
Right now I wouldn't pay too much of a premium. Maybe $200. Waiting for a fully capable, economic, 3D home projector solution.
3d for me is like all those crappy little apps tv makers add to their TV's these days. If you like these little apps, you might like 3d, but for me it's just a gimmick.
$100 for 3d TV
I won't pay anything now. Will wait how does it turn out. As per my thinking it is useless as you can't wear 3D glass all the time while watching tv.
If they throw in at least a couple of pairs of glasses and the glasses work universally with all TV's or we finally get to a point where glasses aren't needed then sure, I'd pay 15-20% more for that, but the way things are now, I'll pass. (Not to mention more content is needed to make 3D a desirable feature.)
Like others, I wouldn't pay for 3D either. I'm holding out for Holosuite technology.
I would pay a 5-10% premium.
I would only pay extra if it also came with other features like built in media center extender or boxee
I just want a new HDTV w/ 24p
btw, I have the same video card that we are giving away. Great card. Something to note is that it is low profile but the low profile bracket is not included--weak but it is cheap ~$5.
Maybe 100 bucks depending on content. Now 4K2K resolution, I'd pay another 500 on a sixty inch TV for that.
$200, but I would really just prefer if it became standard on sets that met minimum requirement like 120hz, hdmi 1.4, etc.
Zero.
I wouldn't pay any extra, sorry.
I don't think I would pay extra for it at this time unless it became a better experience.
Even at the theaters I'm not totally wowed by the experience. I've seen Avatar and Toy Story 3 in 3D and I could take it or leave it.
I see myself skipping that option and focusing on paying extra for 24p or LED backlighting since I don't have that in any of my HD TV systems.
Hope Santa has a EVGA card in my stocking this year. =)
Since my eyes are of that magic combination that mean I get headaches with long exposure to '3d' of any kind, I wouldn't pay anything for the 'privilage'.
I really have not bought into the 3D hype as of yet. I purchased a new Television recently and specifically avoided 3D because the Price to performance benefit just wasn't there.
Despite James Cameron's zealous excitement over it, 3D is overrated and rather unimpressive. It's a neat little novelty trick, but not worth paying a premium on top of the outrageously overpriced cable plans.
I would pay up to an addition $150.00 for a 50 inch tv with 3d over non-3d if that price included a couple sets of decent glasses.
I just watched Monsters versus Aliens on my friends 3d tv. I never thought that 3d would be a consideration for me but now it is. When done correctly it changes the movie watching experience.
$50 tops
None!
None right now, not till they get rid of the glasses.
None.
I love that things are moving forward (innovation is always good!). But I don't think I'm interested in 3D TV/movies at home.
At the moment, I would pay $100 max for 3D capability, in the future, when the price of glasses, etc. come down and the amount of programming goes up, maybe a bit more, but not much.
I would not pay any extra
3D TV is probably worth another $500, maybe? Not sure I would really use it much though, so I likely wouldn't even pay that much of a premium.
I wouldn't pay any premium for 3D. I would buy a TV with 3D if it came with glasses for free and extra glasses were around $50 each.
maybe 10 percent including glasses. not much more right now until content I see it would be useful for.
100