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Sony Blu-ray Media Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the insane-hardware dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony announced its Blu-ray equipped VGX-XL202 media center box a while back and a full review has finally appeared. This looks like it could be the ultimate media center PC with a Blu-ray re-writer, HDMI and HDCP enabled NVidia graphics, integrated wireless, gigabit ethernet, digital TV tuner and twin hard disks. Unfortunately it doesn't come cheap."

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  1. Image Constraint Token... by norminator · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's supposed to downgrade to a standard-definition resolution when some part of the chain fails the HDCP handshaking operation.

    Actually, it's supposed to be capable of supporting that, but supposedly none of the studios are implementing that on current discs... yet.

    I'd say this is just a case of the media PC being a pile of crap. "Watch our awesome Blue-Rayz movies on this awesome computer... " *hiccup* *crash* *smoke*

  2. Re:Die in a fire by be-fan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blu-Ray isn't any more proprietary than DVD. Both are patented, and both require a license to implement.

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