
When a new Netbook is announced, you can pretty much guess the information before you even start reading a company press release: 1.6-GHz Atom processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive and Windows XP operating system. As such, keyboard and battery life are important elements in the differentiation of individual models, but a new element is the mixture: Blu-ray playbackAccording to this website, the Acer Aspire One 571 uses Vmedia 32-mm format, in the films within the plastic cartridges. But to properly display HD video on the 10-inch, 1,280 x 720 screen (with a cinematic 16:9-format), the 1.66-GHz Atom CPU is supposed to be linked Quartics “Q1721 multimedia coprocessor that enables the encoding and decoding of H.264 and other HD formats (up to 1080p).
If we think of Acer, a company spokesman noted that a prototype was shown at CES, but there are no immediate plans to release the Aspire One 571 stateside. The company is also overseas, but nothing was. We will continue with this tasty morsel of information to see what else can be dug up to this Netbook.
In the meantime, we propose a question: We are not on the idea of Blu-ray in such a small screen, but you have the desire for a HD video on a 10-inch Netbook?
