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Old 07-26-2006, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by rainman
does that mean if the companies of set top boxes could do a software update and give us 4.2.2 capabilties?
I'm not sure, and I hope someone who knows can clarify, but it's my understanding that the STBs use hardware decoding rather than software, ie there is a chip in there that does the decoding, and it only knows how to do 4.2.0. If so, changing the firmware wouldn't change the hardware.
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