Orchid Win7 v1 escreveu:
>>> The BBC's iPlayer system "works". I mean, it's so horrifyingly blurry
>>> that you sometimes can't see people's faces clearly enough to recognise
>>> who's who, and often the end credits are unreadable. But technically
>>> that still counts as "works", right?
>>>
>>> I just looked it up. The transfer rate of a DVD is 10.5 mbit/sec. The
>>> maximum broadband speed you can get is 8 mbit/sec. So... does that mean
>>> that people in America have something faster than ADSL or something?
>>
>> no, it simply means MP4 does a way better job at compressing than DVD 
>> codecs...
>> they are watching non-blurry HD streams, real-time.
> 
> DVD is MPEG2. (?) I thought nobody had implemented MPEG4 yet.

bluray is almost 6 years old already.  MP4 is almost already in every 
browser as part of HTML5 spec.

see what you get for not reading slashdot feeds?  You sound almost like 
a caveman!

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