The big wildcard here is HDCP. It does seem that ATI does not have any cards shipping with HDCP support.
There has been a lot written about Blue Ray/HD DVD support for Vista and XP, and how HDCP is going to be required to play back these formats in full resolution. I suspect that even with a Laptop this will be the case.
As for Blue Ray/HD DVD support for OSX, who knows, but knowing that Steve wants to keep the media compainies happy, I doubt playback will be any less restrictive then in Windows
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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The big wildcard here is HDCP. It does seem that ATI does not have any cards shipping with HDCP support.
There has been a lot written about Blue Ray/HD DVD support for Vista and XP, and how HDCP is going to be required to play back these formats in full resolution. I suspect that even with a Laptop this will be the case.
As for Blue Ray/HD DVD support for OSX, who knows, but knowing that Steve wants to keep the media compainies happy, I doubt playback will be any less restrictive then in Windows