What kind of hardware acceleration do you want ?
There was an article in the german C'T testing hddvd and blueray on windows with a state-of-the-art machine and it does not work well at all...
The video-acceleration of ati and nvidia (that is only in 2 chipsets of each vendor) does not make the big difference...
The problem is with the decryption. That eats up two thirds of the performance needed for playing hd-content from blueray and hddvd...
I think we'll have to wait until some vendor has the mercy or finds it to be an interessting market and supports hardware-decryption for both standards and hopefully works with the linux community on drivers for the kernel... besides that, lay back and relax and watch hd-content from your cable provider... Here in Germany, you cannot even do that for more than 3 programs...
Patience is the key for consumers and the industry just ruins technology-evolution... Too complex creatures (1080/i/p/25/30/unsupported+fake24p,...) never survive... And trying to sell a customer 3 different devices within only 3 years for [hd ready 720 | full hd 1080/25,30 | full hd ready? 1080/24p], 2 video-disk-formats with changing specification after release (blueray 1.3something finally got picture-in-picture but still no internet-content from hddvd) instead of compining video-features from hddvd with storage from blueray (40gb compared to 50gb or 100gb with firmware-upgrade on 4-layer)...
Don't expect any company to really put effort in research and driver-building until those arguments are settled and there is actually a market of
working products...
(Sorry for bitching around...)
Best regards,
a sad Andreas
