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Acer Labs' (ALI) Plans Box To Play PS2 Games, DVD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the maximize-your-potentialities dept.

bemis writes: "Techweb has an article about Acer's plans to bring PC and PSX gaming to DVD players in China next year (and hopefully domestically here in the U.S.) ..they are also ramping up a chipset for 266MHz DDR SDRAM for Athlon systems to bring the bus speed up from a paltry 200MHz." Not much detail is given about the hinted-at game / video boxes, but the project sounds pretty ambitious. At this rate, DVD players will pass the $100 mark soon.

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  1. It emulates the original Playstation, NOT the PS2 by weeeee · · Score: 5

    It doesn't do PS2, just the original PSX

  2. What about the CSS Licence by Why+Should+I · · Score: 5

    Isn't there some law about licencing CSS on machines with software and DVD capabilities as opposed to DVD players with CSS in hardware. Won't this decision place the DVD player in the computer category and hence void the CSS licence?