Posted by rich on 01/07/06 13:54

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:44:07 -0800, Mr. X wrote:

> "video-game dude" <videogamedude@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1136512415.752409.219450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v635/77bluetsunami77/cessn04Red.jpg
>>
>> *Fully Software-Decoded BD Player Driven by Cell Processor
>> (Sony-IBM-Toshiba CPU)
>> *High Quality Image Processing Driven by RSX Graphics Processor (Nvidia
>> GPU)
>> *1080p/60 12bit Color HDMI Output
>> *32bit Floating Point Color Processing *32bit Floating Point Audio
>> Processing
>
> This is only possible because Blu-Ray is only MPEG2 not MPEG4.

No, blu-ray also supports mpeg4 and MS's codec:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117681,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1642227,00.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc

I think HD-DVD and blu-ray are supporting the same video codecs.
Don't know about audio.

But it is interesting the ps3 can't be seen in the photograph.

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