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Notebook with Blu-Ray Drives, the New Battery Killers

The victory of the Blue-Ray standard HD-DVD on the market, a flood of very cheap mobile readers to high-definition fans has another opportunity,

their favorite title, even if on the road.

Things may seem easy, but they are still not entirely so. The promise that a broad spectrum of high-definition titles for your phone Enjoyment is paralyzed by the fact that the Blue-Ray drive can be even a powerhog. According to the analysts of technology, as fas as the first generation of Blu-ray devices, you will of energy from the battery, take a look at the half of the film.

"Blue-ray autonomy of the battery is a major source of concern," said Yankee Group analyst Josh Martin. "If you use a Mac and you can not be a movie of two hours, you just now, that would be a very big problem," said Martin.

Battery at a slower pace than any other element, and there is no law of Moore for this type of material and the small steps are considered important progress. More than that, the batteries are the last point of the notebook manufacturer of the "To-Do" list, as they also other parts of the equipment in the laptop matters to the top.

The introduction of the Blue-Ray laptops have worse, while respecting the autonomy of the battery, and the notebook vendors proposed to the bush, as the exact impact of these readers about the battery from the notebook. If the allegations are true, then the battery life to reduce, only a simple time.

"The laser will show [Blue-ray player] is a laser energy," notes the analyst Dean McCarron of Mercury Research. "Every time you introduce a new technology, as the first tend to be Greedy. Once in a certain point, however, the industry begins the process of refining," he added.

The laser is not the only element that is responsible for the energy drain. The high-definition streams are decoded and turned the moving images on the screen. If the decoding is done by the software, it's simple, the food and energy for the treatment of cycles.

"We have ourselves to the playback of DVD and Blu-ray discs, and our first data have shown that they are to beat [battery life of] fallen than half when playing Blu-ray" Dell said Brian Zucker, his Seat also in a Committee of the Blu-Ray Association.

However, if you have a mobile HD lovers, not despair: There are issues with reading, which, together with two movies on a single battery module. Mentionnés top models are the Dell Inspiron XPS M1530 and 1420, alleged that in support of about 4 hours playback Blu-Ray.

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