From: "Geo" 

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
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> Anybody offhand know the bit rate on a 1080p HDMI (including multi-channel
> audio) signal? It seems to me that's the minimum download rate
"needed" to
> make HD silver disks go away.

Well I can tell you this, 1080p mkv files (they use compression) require a
higher transfer rate than I can get from the 5400rpm hard drive on my
laptop.. You certainly aren't going to get enough transfer rate from a
standard DVD drive.

Geo.

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