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vilya
on Oct 2, 2011
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Neal Stephenson: Innovation Starvation
I think you're overlooking the many algorithmic advances in video & audio codecs in that time period too. It certainly has NOT been case of the software guys sitting around since the 70s waiting for the hardware guys to catch up.
Retric
on Oct 2, 2011
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The 'advances' in video & audio codecs require more hardware to encode and decode them. It's not like I can decode a blue ray disk on a Pentium 4.
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