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Remember the article I mentioned about the HTC and its lacking in video drivers? Well, it seems like things might be changing a little bit inside for HTC. We can see this and read this from the HTC's CEO himself, Peter Chou.
Although it all started and went on. The only thing that HTC said to us was whoops, my bad and we'll do a better job next time. Of course that left a lot of us unhappy and pissed off. Peter Chou finally has a response about all of this matter. A response was saying that they hope to release a driver a tthe end of March. According to Fudzilla, Dr. Florian Seiche, vice president of HTC Europe was saying "Video acceleration drviers for HTC devices will see the light of the day". These responses are much happier to be seen. Not like "we'll make better devices next time around".
So now, I got all your hopes up. Except I'm about to hit it or pull it down again. Why? Because it will not make your phone to be what you think it'll be. According to another source, Engadget, the "drivers" will not exactly be a driver. There's not even a driver involved. Instead, the company is working their butts off with a team of engineers that has discovered a new way to raise the performance of these drivers by existing software stack that they have (and have developed, I hope).
If that is true, it should be all well and arrived in March. How well will things go, that is yet to be seen or even mentioned. It is definitely an improvement from "We'll do a better job next time. You're screwed now though" to "Try this and see if it'll help". It is not the best way to say it, but definitely better. It also makes sense to work on the future product while not focusing too much on the current products. However, keeping the current customers will save the company's resources ten times of going to get new ones. I learned that from The Office.
From Gizmodo, they found an article some comments from HTC about the software fix. Here's the article.
There's also a quote from HTC's team.
Quote:
Some of our top engineers have investigated video performance on our devices and have discovered a fix that they claim will dramatically improve performance for common on-screen tasks like scrolling and the like. Their fix would help most of our recent touch-screen products including the Touch family of devices and TYTN II / Tilt, Mogul / XV6900. The update is in testing and we hope to release it soon. However this fix is not a new video driver to utilize hardware acceleration; it is a software optimization. Video drivers are a much more complicated issue that involves companies and engineers beyond HTC alone. We do not want to lead anyone to believe they should expect these. To explain why we are not releasing video acceleration instead of the optimization I offer you our official statement... "HTC DOES plan to offer software upgrades that will increase feature functionality, over the air wireless speeds and other enhancements for some of the phones being criticized, but we do not anticipate including any additional support for the video acceleration issues cited in customer complaints. It is important for customers to understand that bringing this functionality to market is not a trivial driver update and requires extensive software development and time. HTC will utilize hardware video acceleration like the ATI Imageon in many upcoming products. Our users have made it clear that they expect our products to offer an improved visual experience, and we have included this feedback into planning and development of future products. To address lingering questions about HTC's current MSM 7xxx devices, it is important to establish that a chipset like an MSM7xxx is a platform with a vast multitude of features that enable a wide range of devices with varied functionality. It is common that devices built on platforms like Qualcomm's will not enable every feature or function. In addition to making sure the required hardware is present, unlocking extended capabilities of chipsets like the MSM 7xxx requires in-depth and time consuming software development, complicated licensing negotiations, potential intellectual property negotiations, added licensing fees, and in the case of devices that are sold through operators, the desire of the operator to include the additional functionality. To make an informed decision about which handset suits them best, consumers should look at the product specification itself instead of using the underlying chipset specifications to define what the product could potentially become."
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