6800 Video Processor in Trouble

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If this turns out to be true. I am going to very po! You don't buy a car and
later the manufacturer says there was a problem with 2 cylinders and in fact
its only a v6. It should work as advertised and if it doesn't then those who
bought deserve a refund or replacement with a working version!



"tq96" <tq96@tq96.tq96> wrote in message
news:Xns958278C3E4E2Etq96@127.0.0.1...
> "The Video Processor (soon to receive a true marketing name) on the NV40
> was somewhat broken, although it featured MPEG 2 decode acceleration.
> Apparently, support for WMV9 decode acceleration was not up to par with
> what NVIDIA had hoped for. As of the publication of this article, NVIDIA
> still has not answered our questions of whether or not there is any
> hardware encoding acceleration as was originally promised with NV40. So,
> the feature set of the Video Processor on NV40 (the GeForce 6800) was
> incomplete, only in its support for WMV9 acceleration (arguably the most
> important feature of it).
>
> NVIDIA quietly fixed the problem in the 6600GT..."
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2238&p=2
>
> It was a great sounding feature, but who knows how much from that original
> press release will be made available to owners of 6800 cards.