"Can you say that the hardware available 5 years ago was fast enough for today's AVC codec?" -- John Shutt Actually, my home computer is two months shy of 5 years old and it plays AVC and WM9 fine. But don't get me wrong, I think your arguments are valid. Dan Grimes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.