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To: Stoctrash who wrote (22649)9/17/1997 1:32:00 PM
From: DiViT   of 50808
 
Currently MPEG on the internet is mostly MPEG 1. Not DVD's MPEG2. Most of what's out there is fairly low rate so no need for a low end decoder on todays boxes.

I think we will see a marriage of WebTV and DVD. Phillips and Toshiba have already mentioned something along these lines and Philips DVx 8000 box is one example. I expect there will be additional DVD/Web products introduced that will either need hardware decoders or expensive CPU's. The former presents an opportunity for companies that have MPEG2 decoders...
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