> Well yes, on other hand there is also hardware acceleration case which make lot of sense when you are manufacturing devices at scale. This. In those days any

> Well yes, on other hand there is also hardware acceleration case which make lot of sense when you are manufacturing devices at scale. This. In those days any general-purpose CPU with enough grunt to do realtime software decoding of MPEG2 and hypothetical newer codecs would have needed a fan - which would have been a dealbreaker for a living-room appliance.