Posted by Allan on 10/09/05 00:26

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:16:41 GMT, NunYa Bidness
<nunyabidness@nunyabidness.org> wrote:

>>> You don't get it. Blu ray HD video, as well as the MS HD embraced
>>>format have way too high a processor intensive requirement.
>>
>>And what makes you think the Blu ray drive won't do anything but read
>>and pass data?
>
> It isn't the drive, Chucko... It's the processing of the stream
>after it leaves the drive. It ain't MPEG-2. It will have a minimum
>req. of 2 CPUs.

"MPEG-2 can be used for SD and HD video and has been chosen for
BD-ROM."

http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technology/hddvd/

Stupid Troll.






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