<< Only a decoder card, such as the Hollywood Plus or the CT 7160 can do the things you want. It's not the graphics card. >>
Actually it is the graphics card and software. MMC 7.5 which was released with the AIW Radeon 8500dv allows video overlay on the secondary monitor which enables you to watch DVD's on your TV seperate from your Primary Workspace in Win9x and WinXP (I believe NT and Win2k will not support this configuration). I'm assuming this will work with any of the cards that support hydravision, I know it works on the Radeon 8500 from posts I read on Rage3d.