Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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I wonder if they could drop an h.264 decoder chip on there and have a driver to just send compressed video over usb 2. That would allow just about any laptop to play 1080p.
Long term usb 3.0 is needed for sure. If they can make a chip fast enough to push that many pixels then it's all good, but that still doesn't solve the 3d problem.
your mixing up a lot of stuff dude....inorder to push h.264 to the card (live) you would have to encode h.264 on the fly (which is very processor taxing), I don't think any OS/software has been made that is "smart enough" to use the GPU to process video and then send it back to the USB bus, so all the video processing is done on the primary processor.
It would work for pre-rendered video being sent via a proprietary streaming software.
get to work and make it dude. haha
He's not saying to encode everything H.264, he's saying to send existing H.264 content to the card for direct decoding rather than decode it in software.