Quote Originally Posted by cadaveca View Post
No..Theater/Xilleon are teh same technology, a UVD that provides copy-protection schemes/connectivity to digital devices.



the Xilleon is of course much more advanced.



Both devices are "systems on a chip" featuring differnt functionality, altohugh the base "tech design" is the same, providing SECURE connectivity.

This is why UVD using no system resources(CPU) is such a big deal...at least to me...with it's included processor(which made me think this card would have "clock domains" such as nV's cards do), all processing tasks are done on the card; decode, encode, and post processing. All the cpu does is provide connectivity between the media device and the vidcard.

What this means is that like nV's G8x I/O chip, ATi's R600 should have either had this integrated within the gpu, or on a seperate device, as nV does. "Missing Mul", anyone?

The Theater chip you think of IS an input/out chip...and possibly what's alluded to in the "UVD", but "Theater 2xx" devices do not provide hardware decoding...nor do they provide HDTV connectivity...this chip is merely for the s-video/composite input/outputs.
You mean to tell me that I am missing Xilleon as well as UVD???