Some HD Titles already available

[Geoffcin]

The problem with using a computer to view the HD disc is that it has to be of VERY high quality, with tons of processing power, and the strong ability to ignore the fan and the noise of the hard drive spining. It has got to have the best video and audio card in the world, or its just not worth viewing with a computer.

3ghz processor minimum, and a 128mb video card. In addition you've got to have a DVI output, and a TV that accepts DVI. Still, there's a lot of computers out there that can do just this.The entry into this kind of multimedia computer is less than a grand for the Gateway models.

[ericl]

My new Comcast cable box sports an HD-DVR. This box is essentially just a computer, and those recorded HD movies and football games are being stored into some file format. Can't this just be hacked somehow? What's preventing some industrious computer geeks from hacking that system and being able to burn those HD files on to a disc or copying them to another computer and playing them on any computer?

the computer would need to be beefy, but not much more so than the cable box.