Mizzou
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Facts are great. Hardware support for webm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM#Hardware
or
http://blog.webmproject.org/2011/01/availability-of-webm-vp8-video-hardware.html
Although of course hardware accelerated video is considerably newer than video on computers and the web and we all managed then...
There's a considerable difference between the announcement of support for WebM and the actual implementation. As Per Hansson has already noted above, this does nothing for the existing install base. This comes across to me as a pretty heavy handed tactic by Google in an attempt to achieve their goals. Also, I find this statement from the Wiki article interesting:
NVIDIA has stated that they support VP8 adoption, but they have no specific plans to provide hardware support