Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[bobs10]

you...

You want to know a secret? None of the current ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards will support the full capabilities of Windows Vista.

me...

Yeah, I posted an article about NVDA finally supporting MPEG-4 a couple of weeks ago. From my point of view HD is still on the distant horizon. I would be happy if they could get DVD working the way it should. Until recently line doubling wasn't even supported in DVD players and with any TV you purchase now you still have trade-offs in the areas of color and resolution. A friend of mine just bought one of Sony’s LCOS 60" TVs, and it's probably the best out there right now, but the blacks really aren't quite black and you can still see blurring in high speed movement. The nice thing about the SEDs is that they hold out the promise of the best of the CRT world with relatively lightweight and thin screens. With these sets we might finally get the displays that could take us to true HD, at some point in the future.

Right now it's basically a component world out there with all the wires and remotes, 4X3 Vs 16X9, NTSC Vs ATSC, connects ranging from S-video to HDMI and a plethora of native resolution devices along with STBs and audio ranging from stereo to 7.1. And that's the good news. Add tuners and GPUs and software and encrypted QAM and DRM to HTPC and you have a major mess.

Personally, if I could get DVD to fulfill its' promises and be able to receive OTA HD along time shifting capabilities in a single box and one remote, I would be happy for now. Throw in some decent software to manage it all and I would be happy as a pig in slop.