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Originally Posted by benwaggoner
It could actually do 1080i up to the HD DVD peak bitrate (28 Mbps or so?).
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On paper yes. The xbox360 profile in MeGUI uses 24Mbps but I sometimes got choppy playback with that. Its astonishing that they didn't have the forethought to include a hardware decoder. Maybe the inclusion of high profile to h.264 in 03/2005 was too near to launch or Microsoft put all of its bets on VC-1. It very much seems like the whole video playback issue was an afterthought because it didn't have HDMI either. What I'm furious about is that it didn't support AC3 playback for files.