For consumers the promise of fat, fully optical pipes will one day render video calls as mundane as voice calls.

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Or you can render a video in Windows in the background while checking on your social networks on Android.

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Your graphics card is required to render the video.

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It looks almost like real paper, but it takes a supercomputer to render full-motion video on it.

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Apple insists the device does better than standard definition, if you are obtaining the video from its iTunes service, since iTunes scales the video for the device, so it will render somewhere between standard definition and HD.

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It can even render 3-D graphics and play video games, not just the dinky ones, either, but the really cool ones with lots of fancy graphics.

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