The articles you linked in clearly referred to (and demoed!) 1080p (h264 at that) playback. Most of the current gen HW is capable of 720p (which is roughly half the block/pixel count of 1080p).

Here is my question and answer to Eldar regarding video play back and his answer

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=19

Saying "plays all high bitrate videos" is kinda generic Just for comparison, the NEON optimized mplayer on the beagleboard also does 720p. But, of course, laziness beats sense, every time, everywhere (having HD content on the RX51 makes no sense as you won't see the resolution difference, it will take more time to copy/dowload, shorten battery life, and use up more space on the device - but hey ! it's HD).

@attila77: as mentioned earlier (or perhaps on a similar thread before), this is useful for bringing high def media to be output on a higher resolution device.

Neat! How much did this iRadar app cost? Does it run in the background like a spider sense, or you must switch to it every time?

I think you need [faulty idealism] in order to get it... and it negatively affects the following attributes:
- social graces
- perspective
- intelligence

I'm under the impression that's a minority use case (compared to plain laziness). And the number of devices (even PMPs !) confirmed to actually do quality external HD playback is low, really low (the connectors seen in the leaks suggest that the RX51 is not going to be one of those, either).

Well the major reason for me asking the question is that i hated video conversion. I just want to download any video from the internet and play it automatically.

Something not many devices can do at this point...

The thing is, the internet will always contain video that plays on most desktop computers. Desktop computers OTOH, will always be more powerful than mobile devices. So, by the time you get mobile devices powerful enough to playback content meant for desktops, the desktops will likely start using something 'stronger', with higher resolution, better compression, etc.

Also, keep in mind 1080p is just a resolution. It almost certainly does not mean it will work with ALL bitrates, codecs and profiles at that resolution (i.e. you have H264 profiles for 1080p that have a 1GBps (!) bitrate, what are the chances of a mobile device playing that back ?)

Take a look at Zii EGG with High Definition 1080p Output Not for sale yet though

http://www.zii.com/Developer/Landing.aspx