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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-01-08 02:39 pm

math for beginners

The Archos uses a video compression standard called MPEG-4 to cram as many as 320 hours of video at near-DVD quality onto its hard drive, the company says -- the equivalent of 160 two-hour movies. (article)
As it happens, I once spent an evening in a hotel bar in Oslo drinking with an Archos salesman pitching electronic jukeboxes.