An Audio/Video/computer nerd named Lorin bought himself a fancy new Toshiba HD-DVD player and dismantled it without even plugging it into a TV to see what type of hardware/software lurk inside. His finding is interesting.

He found that.....

Operating System (OS) is stored on one 256 meg NAND flash memory device and is based off Red Hat Linux. For hardware, the unit uses a 2.5 Ghz Pentium 4 and a gig of PC2700 RAM. Internally the unit runs on Red Hat which looks like it was originally formatted as FAT32, and then repartitioned with ext2fs

When he pulled out the HD-DVD drive and connected it to an XP machine, identified itself as “_NEC HDDVD HR1100A“ which is a recently-released HD-DVD reader that also reads normal DVDs and CDs

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