I'm not claiming to be an expert on how Macromedia / Adobe Flash is bolted together nor it's security architecture, however adding an API to allow any website to stream HD video to directly to the video card sounds like a terrible idea on the level of badness equal to ActiveX. Makes you wonder what the QA cycle for video card drivers is like.
Luckily, Adobe has only announced support of this new reason to keep all us security folks employed HD Video Acceleration for Microsoft operating systems at this time.
(Feature announcement via Lifehacker.)
Oh, and here's some performance benchmarks from anandtech
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