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To: gzubeck who wrote (218504)	12/1/2006 4:43:47 PM
From: NicoV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

thinkt the AMD/ATI merger will pay dividends a year from now as well with the additional need of digital decoding hardware accelerates... I haven't seen any x86 based settop box. For HD, my cable provider will use something like this: adbglobal.com These things don't need the flexibility of a general purpose CPU, they use fixed function hardware. If some channel uses a new codec, the cable provider will re-encode it somewhere in their network instead of on each settopbox.