Stacey,

Thanks for sheding light into this, but are you saying you need dedicated hardware for both of it?

I don't know about CPPM so may be it requires a special piece of silicon that contains a protected de-crypting algorithm to which
Meridian has no access (i.e. to implement this using their own software as for e.g. HDCD form Pacific or DCDi from Faroudja).

But for MLP de-coding, the ONLY argument I would accept from Meridian would be that there is unfortunately not enough horsepower in the DSPs of the 800v2 to do MLP decoding in real time.

But then, doesn't the absence of the need to do video processing for DVD-A free up some DSP CPU cycles?



[This message has been edited by jburkart (edited 01-28-2003).]

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