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It's the motherboard that prevents the use of OS9 on FW800 models, not the CPU. Any MDD CPU can be used with any MDD of the same bus speed without modification.
 
On a side note... I can confirm that my G4 can play 1080p video just fine. Heres a screenshot of the video info.
 

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