All that glitters is not gold.
All that is H.264 1080p is not great quality.
We need porting of high quality algorithms like Nero AVC and x264 to OpenCL only then will we see TRUE GPU encoders.
You mean something like OpenCL. But it would take quite a few years for popular apps to start appearing which support it and have a great quality. Till then we need something else.
I never said that its going to come tomorrow or this year,
but I am 100% certain that this is
not going to take few years and it would be really usable in 6-8 months after WIN7 launch
as both nVidia and ATI are pushing for it real hard and the WIN7 feature is just a start.
And at all those suggesting phenom II X2, you seem to be missing that it is just a temporary solution as AMD just cannot keep sourcing these from X4s and it would end somehow. However, seeing its popularity, it would be nice if AMD could make a native dual core with maybe 4MB L3 which would perform just like phenom II X2 and would be cheaper to produce and will be something permanent.
But the price point at which Regor is sitting right now, in India, is just plain unjustifiable, it does not compete with Phenom II x2 and it has to drop down around 3.5K, where it really belongs and can be had for in US.