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Originally Posted by danvitale It is software encoding. The 360 didnt ship with HD-DVD technology (decoding chips).. If it had it would have cost around £50 more per unit. |
the 360 is more than powerful enough to decode VC-1 or MPEG2 and they have recenly announed a deal with ATI to use some software codecs to use the GPU to decode the video, similar to gpu do in pc's these days
Also HD-DVD's are not backwards compatible with dvd drives unless they actually include a dvd layer on the disc, you cant just put your non hybrid hd-dvd in a dvd drive and read from it it a totally different tech using a blue laser instead of a red one