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Originally Posted by Quarkboy
prospects of seeing a cheap, consumer targeted 10-bit capable decoder chip are in the new future?
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A realistic guess would be sometime in 2013 at the very soonest (which just so happens to be after 12/21/2012 in the
new future
), if by chance something gets announced at one of the big trade shows (NAB, CES, Computex, IFA) in 2012. Same deal for GPUs, CPUs, and APUs, since all next-gen chips destined for 2011 to mid-2012 have finalized designs by this point. Though if Fansubs move to HEVC (aka H.265) in 2014+, history will just repeat itself. But who knows, maybe Dark Shikari will meet his goal of making x264 better than HEVC (initial encoders) by the time its finalized, and everybody will stick with x264 for a few more years.