OK, that makes sense. If it were able to bit-stream HD it would be all over the net. Interestingly the ATI 5 series of cards appear to be able to bit-stream HD. WOHOOOO!!! I've been waiting for this. The info is buried in the middle of an article on anandtech from 3 weeks ago. I missed it at the time.
The low end cards are due Oct. 23. I would imagine that OEM mobos with this chipset onboard will be out Q1 or Q2 2010.
Since I already have the decoding capability in my avr, I don't want to have to pay for yet another component, the player, to decode.
Looks like I might not be buying a PS3 for Christmas.
