On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:40:08PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> MD> It might be. On this good ol' PowerBook with a 400 Mhz G3, about a third
> MD> of the frames are skipped or dropped. And as the software seems to be
> MD> improving rather quickly in this area, the new iBooks might soon be well
> MD> enough for smooth DVD playback.
> MD>
>
> Wouldn't it though not be false marketing (and hence illegal) to claim
> that the iBook2-500 can play DVDs when it drop frames? I believe you could
> get a court to rule that DVD playback means 0 frame drops.
>
How many frames does the apple DVD player drop, though? I'm almost
certain it's nonzero on my Pismo 400.
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