Heard about the web: From I, Cringely

The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007:
Cupertino plans to add H.264 hardware support to its entire line.

Now comes the rumor I have heard, that I believe to be a fact, that has simply yet to be confirmed. I have heard that Apple plans to add hardware video decoding to ALL of its new computers beginning fairly soon, certainly this year…

…This will change everything. Soon even the lowliest Mac will be able
to effortlessly record in background one or more video signals while
the user runs TurboTax on the screen. Macs will become superb DVR
machines with TiVo-like functionality yet smaller file sizes than any
TiVo box could ever produce. In a YouTube world, the new Macs will be a
boon to user-produced video, which will, in turn, promote the H.264
standard. By being able to encode in real time, the new Macs will have
that American Idol clip up and running faster than could be done on
almost any other machine. Add in Slingbox-like capability to throw your
home cable signal around the world and it gets even better. Add faster
video performance to the already best-of-league iChat audio/video chat
client, and every new Mac becomes a webcam or a video phone.

Much more at: THIS LINK

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