Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted
by pavlov on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:40AM
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When the DVD format was new, a 300MHz Pentium II CPU could just barely decode the MPEG-2 stream. And that CPU cost almost two thousand dollars at launch:
In other words, there was simply no way to ship affordable DVD players that would use a general purpose CPU for video decoding. It needed to be in hardware.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pentium-ii-release-d...
In other words, there was simply no way to ship affordable DVD players that would use a general purpose CPU for video decoding. It needed to be in hardware.