Anyway, I have moved to Reel Multimedia's eHD card in my VDR box ... which is nice. I might write up my experiences on it thus far if anyone is actually interested. There's not much English chat out there on this card, mostly in German on vdr portal and reel's own portal.
I have bought an eHD card too, and got as far as having video out both the hdmi and s-video connector,
Also on news (don't know how trustworthy the source is but..):
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20080902113646_ATI_to_Enable _High_Definition_Video_Playback_on_Linux_Based_Computers.html
Ati's roadmap: http://www.techpowerup.com/71277/AMD_Software_Roadmap_Surfaces_HDCP_Content_ in_Linux.html
Let's hope those "OEM only" drivers are repackaged soon to more general usage. I hope Nvidia answers with similar features on their drivers. I just hope that they both make possible to use 50.000000000000Hz refresh rates on driver.
So I am holding my decision (eHD, ATI, Nvidia) for a couple of months more. I've been experimenting HD since 2003, so I am patient..
//Jori