Thanks John, I re-read the article and saw nothing new. The article had the good:
Currently, playing back data from DVD titles on a PC takes a prodigious amount of processing power. Finding a way to do this with fewer components and at lower cost is the newest holy grail for the DVD industry.
"Some people feel that if you have a fast processor, you might as well use it [to playback DVD titles] in software. The problem is that it would take most of a computer's [power] to do it, therefore most vendors are thinking of using separate hardware," says Dan Lavin, an analyst with Dataquest. "It's unclear who is right at the moment, but it's more likely that the software [solution] is not quite there," he says.
And the article had the bad -- but still this is nothing new:
Yet for Mediamatics, a subsidiary of National Semiconductor (NSM), the news is good, according to Lavin. Microsoft's interest in its technology shows Mediamatics might have the inside track on incorporation into upcoming versions of the Windows operating system, he says. |
