In article , Arny
Krueger
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message

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

Hence the "though" at the end of one of comments. It does depend on what
you are doing.


The Blu Ray player has the only relevant clock, and that affects only
its analog outputs. All other data transfers are asynchronous.

Yes, that's fine provided the transferred are all adequately bufferred and
any variations in transfer rate don't have unwanted side-effects. (See my
comments on David's posting.)

Slainte,

Jim

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