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I can imagine about 20 people buying this in the UK, and never actually using it.


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WTF !? In the old days, one of the features differencing standalone players from HTPCs was the boot-up, which was way faster on a standalone player...

The Joe 6 packs of the world will go crazy with these startup times if this isn't corrected fast. Can't wait to see how much time my XBOX360 will take to boot-up and be able to read a HD-DVD. I hope it'll be less than 50s, or even I will go crazy.]]>Oct 20th 2006 11:16AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/18/sony-vgx-xl202-blu-ray-media-center-reviewed/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/10/18/sony-vgx-xl202-blu-ray-media-center-reviewed/I think that is very interesting to view the rear pannel of this HTPC unit to know what kind of outputs it brings.
My personal interesting goes to the 5.1/7.1 analog outpunts ... because I haven't an HDMI audio-receiver yet.

And more ...
On the italian (I'm italian) sony-style site:
http://vaio.sony-europe.com/view/ShowArticle.action?section=Products_ITE&article=1147790066900&productcategory=%2FComputing%2FVAIO+Desktops%2FVD+XL+Series&productmodel=%2FComputing%2FVAIO+Desktops%2FVD+XL+Series%2FVGX-XL202&productsku=VGXXL202.IT1&site=ite_it_IT
there is a "strange" blu ray specification ... it says:
"The supported blu-ray disc (tm) format is not universaly compatible.
The Vaio machines do not support the reproduction of movies recorded on BDR in MPEG-4 AVC and SMPTE VC-1 formats at transfer rate over at 20Mbps".

So my question is here: If I buy some warners VC-1 BDR discs ans some FOX Mpg4AVC discs the vaio will be able to play this medias?

And more: Does all the BDR with those codecs has always bitrate under 20Mbps?

Thank you so much for some clarifications,
Actarus.

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