False information in the articles: No UVD in R600

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Sure, and I agree with you on all of that, but you miss the whole "UVD on the product packaging, but not on the card".

I don't care that hardware decode WILL work(even though, it never will work...)..it doesn't now, not even with 8.38(yes, I have that driver too).

There are 3/4 version of those drivers. You can have the wrong one, or simply you don´t even have the proper software installed. It´s not has simple has put the HD-DVD on the drive and click play.
Search how to get software properly instaled (specialy in XP that needs some software of Microsoft) and an HD player that suport offload to the grafic card.

HARDWARE DEOCDE IS NOT PRESENT IN 2900XT. Shader(software) ACCELERATED decode IS on 2900XT.

Shader is hardware-decode. Software decode is equal to have the CPU do all the work.

Do you get that? shader code doing the decode. SHADER CODE. Not hardware..software run on the shaders.

Ofcourse software run on shader. That thing don´t work alone by it-self. Everything on your PC must be programed software.

So, now that we have come full circle... THERE IS NO HARDWARE DECODE ON R600...MERELY HARDWARE ACCELERATED DECODE USING SHADERS(SOFTWARE).

you are saying that shaders is software?
Shaders are a part off the GPU. That GPU has processing power (a lot) and it can process lots off data. In this case it processes the decoding off the movie. All on the GPU, not CPU.