XBMC on Acer Revo 3610 & Windows 7
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The Crystal HD is a more elegant solution because it works on all operating systems through a single API. It's like having a math coprocessor.

But ...

Math coprocessors are a standard part of every computer these days so everything supports them. Unless the Crystal HD becomes standard as well few apps will support it and Broadcom will eventually give up and discontinue it.

I imagine Broadcom will be hoping to sell chips to the mobo manufacturers to get them included as standard. We'll see what happens, though I'm not optimistic.

Just out of curiousity, if the Crystal HD were already built into every PC would we have switched to DirectX for XBMC or would we have stayed with OpenGL? That is, with a Crystal HD is the OpenGL build a match for the DirectX build?

JR
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ISO file support - by franky - 2009-12-17, 06:11
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crystalHD on a REVO ION??? - by hellohello - 2010-01-02, 17:50
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Available screen resolutions? - by parrydave - 2010-05-17, 16:47
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