Posted by Non-entity on 12/21/05 22:09

(regarding heat generated by DVD players...)


> It's probably the MPEG decoder chip and digital-to-analog converter
> circuits. The MPEG decoding takes a considerable amount of computing
> horsepower and that generates heat. On some players you will find heat
> sinks attached to those very chips.
>
>

Thanks. Thinking about it, it's amazing the load created (and heat
generated) from the P4 3.20G chip on my computer when it's "rendering"
images to be burned to DVD.

Bill H.

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