{"id":267,"date":"2006-05-12T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T05:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=267"},"modified":"2006-05-12T22:10:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T05:10:58","slug":"first-linux-based-hd-dvd-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/first-linux-based-hd-dvd-player\/","title":{"rendered":"First Linux-Based HD DVD Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/first-hd-dvd-hardware\/\">my musing about assorted goals<\/a> involved in developing HD DVD support for Linux? Several people have written me to point out that Toshiba has already beaten us to it&#8211; in the flagship HD DVD device. In case you get all your geek and\/or multimedia news from this blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdfreaks.com\/news\/13405\">this article at CDFreaks<\/a> has a number of juicy details. It is reportedly a high-end PC board that runs a Red Hat-based Linux distribution on an M-Systems Disk-On-Chip (essentially a flash memory component that looks like an IDE drive in from the PC&#8217;s perspective). Of course, the most important component is the ATAPI HD DVD drive that can be removed and connected to your desktop PC, as the pioneer in this story demonstrates in a video.<\/p>\n<p>See? What did I tell you in <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/ever-emerging-digital-theater-technology\/\">Ever-Emerging Digital Theater Technology<\/a>? It&#8217;s just a PC; everything is.<\/p>\n<p>This raises some interesting questions. I have yet to hear whether the launch discs actually used anything more advanced than stock MPEG-2 for video coding. There was some speculation that the discs were not using VC-1 yet. A player like this is trivally upgradeable in the field. So the software support for VC-1 may or may not be there. I still have to wonder if this was some kind of a &#8220;Plan B&#8221; device in order to beat Sony&#8217;s Blu Ray to market. This strikes me as rather unorthodox, not to mention costly. Maybe Toshiba could not get all of the custom ASICs (ideally lower cost than a off-the-shelf, general PC components) done in time but had a separate team working on this in parallel &#8220;just in case&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba beats us all to it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}