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Besides, by the time that HD-DVD or Blu-ray becomes the norm (read: "affordable to the masses"), I dont think it is unreasonable to think that 64bit processors will be much more widespread.]]>Aug 25th 2006 3:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/Aug 25th 2006 7:59AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/28/nvidia_hdcp_graphics_card_presentation/

"In the first test run, a regular HD DVD movie bought in the US was played with the full load being put on the not quite up-to-date but still capable Intel dual-core processor."

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"Intel's two cores had plenty to do already with the VC-1 versions and needed 100% of their processing power to decode the movie..."

100% doesn't leave a'lot of power for backgound tasks. However, if you have a capeable graphics card (3rd party) from nVidia or ATI (none of that integrated stuff) then you could enable hardware acceleration which would reduce the load off the processor by about 30% - 40%. Averaging 65% give or take 5% of the clock cycle usage.

So yes an 32bit Intel processor can be used to view HD media, I'm just saying, AMD who have long since held the lead in CPU benchmarks have better performance for these kinds of tasks.]]>Aug 25th 2006 9:20AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/]]>Aug 25th 2006 10:33AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/24/will-32-bit-windows-vista-play-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-maybe/
What i want to know is.. how many people out there have a computer hooked up to thier HDTV monitor. I have been doing that for a year now, my Westy 37" 1080p is monitor 3 of a 5380 pixel desktop, and so far i have had no problems playing anything, and dont expect to have issues later on either.

BTW the WMV-HD codecs are really good.I have made quite a few HD 1080p shorts with it and its perfect.
And Zach is quite right... i have AMD 64 X2 running it all - dual Nvidia 7600 with dual DVI and its all good.

IMHO STFU on this driver thing.]]>Aug 25th 2006 10:33AM