As if 1080p picture , full - resolution audio recording , final connectivity and multi - tuner signaling decoding was n’t enough , Toshiba ’s HD videodisk team had even cooked up a organisation of embedded animatronic control before the format wasput out of its misery . In this video recording leave over fromCES 2008 , this little mechanical jazz band playing the Duke Ellington classic “ Take the A Train ” is controlled by , that ’s ripe , an HD DVD disc . Here ’s how :
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The disc is encode with an living control signal embedded directly into the video line ( sort of like how Dolby ProLogic was just mix into stereo audio caterpillar track ) . That signaling is interpreted in a freestanding outboard box seat , which use the animation cues to tell the statuette how to move . All in all , a fairly labor - intensive process that would have need the leverage of an additional box , not to note a assembling of tiny plastic chanteuses , coolheaded cats and swingin ’ daddy - o ’s . But if you wanted the magnate of a full miniature idle words band made of plastic in your very own living way , you drop off your chance .
We loved you HD DVD . But we ca n’t facilitate but think what could have been if your developers knock off less on this kind of R&D and stuffed a little more of that cash into envelope aimed at studios like Fox . After all , it might exercise if the video acting was Star Wars , and those figurine were holding lightsabers . [ HD DVD coverage on Giz ]
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