[winternett]

And so the closed web begins! I am sure these new chips will have magical "flaws" in them that prevent regular content from being shown for unforeseen reasons, and they will also prevent copying DVDs and using certain share apps. It was only a matter of time. Prepare to have to pay every time you want to watch content, instead of being able to buy individual copies of DVDs, prepared to get milked for your dollars every time you log on!

The DIVX revolution has been killed.

[jrockway]

I am willing to bet a lot of money on the opposite side. My guess is that all existing x86/x86_64 code will continue to work just as well as it did before.

My guess is that CPU microcode designed to detect that h264 decoding being offloaded to the GPU was from a Usenet post instead of from Hollywood would be difficult, if not impossible, to implement. (My point: the CPU doesn't even see bits from the video to decode anymore. So it probably can't fuck them up, even if it wanted to, which it doesn't.)