USB Workshop sends words of a new ultra-slim USB 8X DVD drive.

To play DVD movies, this drive must be the only drive connected to the USB bus for the sake of stability. MPEG-2, the video format used to compress DVD movies, must travel without delays through a USB 1.1 wire. Playing movies on a saturated bus risks ´hiccups´. As a note, MPEG-2 playback can take up to 6Mbps of bandwidth.

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