"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message

In article ,
TonyL wrote:
Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article ,
TonyL wrote:

That's an interesting point. I've noticed that players
are also starting to have sockets for things like USB
or memory cards as well. So far I've not seen any
widespread standardisation of such things. But this may
turn out to be a significant trend.


Yes, this player also has USB but one advantage of
network access is no whirring HDs in the same room.

I can see why people find that approach attractive. Must
admit that I do wonder about systems with multiple
devices having their own clocks, though. Witness the
timing effects I found when I was looking at the iPlayer
this year! My impression is that even the BBC have
problems with this.


I don't see how this relates to this case. The Blu Ray player has the only
relevant clock, and that affects only its analog outputs. All other data
transfers are asynchronous.