Flash 10.1 to get GPU acceleration....

[Dr Mordrid]

as in GPGPU = using the GPU to highly accelerate video calcs. Pre-release version article here;

AnandTech article....

As noted in my posts last year GPGPU (NVidia's CUDA and ATI's Stream Processing API's) are going to be a really big deal when it comes to speeding up software maths, and soon. Big speedups for multimedia (including home theater) and scientific software in particular.

FireFox users have a bit of a procedure to use it and get the acceleration with the pre-release, but it doesn't look too bad. Hopefully this will be automated in a FF patch or the Flash release.

Supported graphics card list in the article.

[Jammrock]

Just got it setup on my desktop and so far it's pretty good. I think it still needs a little work, the blur/smooth on lower rez stuff seems too blocky, but it sure makes flash video run smooth as silk. Can't wait for the final version.

Silverlight 3 has had GPU acceleration for a while and it actually works really well. And it works on more than just IE now. It's one of the better things MS has done on the web.