[Quarkboy]

I think it should be obvious to anyone that there will never be hardware devices that play 10bit h264 with the exceptions of essentially HTPCs that are really running ffdshow.

I.e. no one is going to produce a chip that decodes 10bit. There's zero market for it.

I suppose it's possible that the PS3/Xbox could play them, since they use software decoding, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

The only reason h.264 decoding is so ubiquitous is because of the blu-ray and i-products standards, and non of those play or are compatible with 10bit.