There is an intense discussion of layers, sectors, modes, error corrections and mpeg-2 video-compression standards.

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Beyond all that, this thing gets energized by a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor coupled with the VX800 digital media IGP chipset, which touts full DirectX 9 support and video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DivX video formats (plus a VMR-capable HD video processor, among other things).

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The company has designed a relatively cheap chip that is powerful enough to decode digital video (MPEG-2) on the fly and is also programmable.

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Microsoft Windows Media Player: This audio and video player supports almost any type of local and streamed multimedia format, including Real Audio, Real Video, QuickTime, MIDI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, AVI, .wav, .mov, .vod, and .au.

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Some have even gone as far as to state that Sony's strategy of using MPEG-2 and uncompressed PCM audio on single-layer Blu-ray discs may have required too much video compression, resulting in early releases that don't match the sharpness of VC-1 encoded movies available on HD DVD.

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The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).

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Of course in addition to emulating that massive library of 8-bit goodness, the PMP will also handle MP3, OGG, FLAC, and WAV audio, as well as AVI, MPEG-4 SP, XviD, and DivX video, which you can view on the player's 2.5-inch QVGA screen.

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