I don't know whether just VLD would cost a million or not. And even if the chip did support VLD, you'd be complaining that they don't do the iRLE for the DCT blocks or something. By the way, if a company can't get a PIII/500 to VLD a 1920 stream, then they need to hire something other than high school students to do their coding for them. This isn't brain surgery.
>>>Thomson's SOC (no x86) decoder sells for roughly $15 and integrates NTSC out, Audio decode, system transport decoder, and video decode<<<
So? That just proves my point. What else does it do? Nothing. For twice the cost you can get a multifunctional chip that does the same thing and two dozen other things as well. If a 'mere $15' weren't such a big issue why would everybody be working their butts off trying to push SoftDVD solutions? $15 is a huge cost at the component level. Just ask Compaq, Dell, Apple, HP, Gateway etc.
>>>Nvidia has passed DVD WHQL recently. Do your homework.<<<
Whoops, sorry. They passed it last week, I must have missed that NR. What's that, almost a year since they shipped the chip? Oh yeah.. and about 2 years after the RagePro passed the same thing. And even then it doesnt even come close to the efficiency of a Rage128 in decode. Damn, they are one helluva progressive company!! I should invest some money there, surely they are going to lead the pack!
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