Originally posted by: Demons
I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS... I guess I should have bought the 6600GT instead of going all out and getting the 6800 GT.... This is total crap... I don't understand how nVidia can get away with this... who knows maybe they wont... Sorry everyone... I needed to vent and didn't know where else to do it... I guess I'll call eVGA and yell at them.
P.S. in case anyone doesn't know what I am ranting about... nVidia has made their offical announcement reguarding the WMV9 hardware decoding on the 6800 cards and none of the 6800 cards except the PCI-E standard 6800 (non ultra and GT) and 6800 LE. I guess I'm SOL with my APG 6800 GT. See the link
here.
don't apologize brother, we're all upset about this...well most of us anyways.:roll: you have a perfect right to be disapointed. If you're like me, and bought the card for HTPC/video playback,recording,editing in particular....then you are especially disgusted. Hell, anyone who wants good video playback performance in general got screwed over. And that does not even get into the whole issue about .wmv acceleration that was promised and then we were reassured it would work with new drivers, then slowly but surely, Nvidia totally renigged.
Also, what about the much vaunted hardware encoding features? What about divx? What about Nvidia after we had bought into their whole 6800 advertising campaign, and chose to purchase the 6800 over the x800 because of the on chip video processor....well, after a $300,400,$500 investment, they say a few months later(after much doublespeak and dodging the issue)....Oh yeah, to get this to work, you have to buy Media Center Edition, or our DVD encoders, and btw, .WMV acceleration works, but doesn't work as good as we expected on the 6800series? WTF is all of that? How is that for a company acting responsibly and honest advertising? If you notice now, .wmv hardware accel is completely absent from the "pure video feature set on the 6800series. Top to bottom, This whole affair has been, and continues to be, slimy, and dishonest... pure and simple....and what this driver fix, and this whole "pure video" affair has all been about is known as a business practicing the....CYA principle....."Covering Your ASS"
So, The way I see it, not only the people who bought the cards for the on chip video processor...but really, anyone who bought them paid for these features in a very real way. Essentially, they were part of the price of the card..and these features were undelivered. Moreover, anyone who cares about companies in general acting responsibly, well this issue ought to mean something to them as well. The more companies that get away with this sort of thing, the more the consumer gets screwed. If ATI or Intel or any hardware company starts to consistently and actively market features and yet not deliver them...other hardware companies will soon realize there is no accountability, and they can get away with virtually anything they want. And, Despite People like Rollo telling us to shutup and go whine somewhere else....silence can indeed go a long way towards customers NOT getting what they paid for, and NOT getting what they were promised. The simple fact is, the silence of consumers is the very thing that helps companies get away with dishonesty like this. Whats encouraging though, is there are still a helluva lot of people around here to give them the HELL they deserve!!
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