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If you can 'nect it up to a USB or network drive it's a nice option.
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Just get the HD DVD reader for the XBox 360, which is USB, and use that, and you can then watch HD DVDs. Standard DVDs show how low res they are, even on laptop screens.
I think the reader mentioned is only $199.00
To watch an HD DVD in full resolution, however, you will need to be running Vista, or a good Linux Distro, and have the aacs key in hand (in da box, actually).
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Get five free movies as well...
Do you mean "nectup tUSBdr aniopt?"
I agree totally.
The only solution I can see is to basically ignore the PC for timing-critical tasks and just treat the PC as some kind of flaky dumb terminal. Then put all of the data processing and real time IO in a well documented microcontroller or FPGA, hopefully one that won't be obsoleted next year. At least you can buy a 32 bit microcontroller that is as powerful as the old PCs that we used to use. One thing that annoys me is that none of the cheap microcontrollers has more than a few kB of SRAM on chip, in spite of the fact that a 1Mbyte SRAM chip is cheap these days. For some reason I guess the marketing people want you to place two separate chips and wire up all of the bus lines, which slows down the access time due to the signals having to go off chip.
Chris
Late at night, by candle light, Don Bowey penned this immortal opus:
No, I meant "nect t p o USB ive s ce tion". Make of it whatever you wish.
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