GeForce FX related: ATI’s Radeon 9700 versus NVIDIA’s NV30: Understanding the next generation of graphics chips, HLSL’s, Cg and RenderMonkey, Vertex and Pixel Shader Programming, UNC COMP 238, Advanced Image Generation
Both the NV30 and R300 can apply pixel shader effects to video streams. Sure I’ll probably get a GeForce FX to play Doom 3 on, but it might be fun to do some pixel shader mucking.