"It also has a quick standby mode using Intel's VIIV technology, which brings it up in 15 seconds, as opposed to the 50 with a normal player."
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.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"It also has a quick standby mode using Intel's VIIV technology, which brings it up in 15 seconds, as opposed to the 50 with a normal player."
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.