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@a dumb cat Exactly that why this sound so fishy, you can stick a Broadcom Crystal HD chip inside the current AppleTV and play some Blu-rays through XBMC on it.

There's no reason other than politics that Apple cant stick a more powerful H.264 decoder chip inside the iTV.

The only explanation I can think off is that the dedicated logic for decoding H.264 is embedded in the A4 CPU and has no external bus with the bandwidth to handle HD video. Hence the limitation to 720p like that iPad.

Nvidia is already going to appeal, there wont be any import ban.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN2622713220100726?rpc=44

The ITC is the favorite court for anyone who wants to sue over patents due to its favorable attitude towards them. It used to be that court in Texas but since they tightened up the rules for patent trolling they've all gone running to the ITC now.

It's another generic Realtek 1073 player it even uses the same case as the Mede8er one of the more well known units in Europe/Africa.
http://www.iboum.com/pr/mede8er.php

You can already buy the same hardware in the HDX-Bone right now
http://www.hdx1080.com/component/content/article/180-worldsmallestmediaplayer

Can run Android 1.6 but will be getting updates.

@blogwhitesitescom

Except as often the case with southpark people completely miss the point and latch onto whatever racist, offensive meme further purporting it.

The whole anti-ginger thing was a very British phenomenon that has spread because of bad comedians highlighting the issue thinking they are defusing it and only making it worse.

Also not sure what prompted your original comment but Boris has blond hair if thats what it was (that photo is making his hair look odd).

Hardware acceleration is two different things, Windows has had GPU video acceleration through DXVA far, far longer than OSX has had all the way back to WinXP.

The GPU acceleration in IE9 is for drawing all on screen content within the browser and is available to Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

@Stick Tegra2 delays most likely have affected Boxee Box as to which is better in the long run the Boxee Box is, the Popbox is only getting started plus still no GPU accelerated GUI.

@tricheboars Yes it does MKV, its a Realtek 1073DD player of which their are many many versions of the same hardware.
http://www.iboum.com/net-media-players.php?sort=sortdate&chip=realtek&pfilt=&hdd=&net=&fan=&lcd=&dts=&dtsp=&dolbt=&dolbtp=&dtsma=&dtsmap=&year=&ppp=40&bd=&dvd=&pg=1&rp=crealtek

The Netflix support though is unique.

@Kamalot The TV companies are lazy, short sited & cheap. They'd rather continue on with bad GUI's, poor features & performance then spend the money on building something thats like in this video.

They assume all consumers dont care about such things & are easily duped by advertising some slow ass Youtube widget but also that the AV nerds only care about image quality (which is partly true). You could have the worst GUI on the market and many HDTV review sites would never even take that into consideration.

I too hope someday that someone will set a cat among the pigeons.

Synology NAS have had these features for ages why would anyone buy a Drobo ?