AnandTech just published their review of 10.4 and basically they say that Apple released 10.4 too soon. But what interested me was the comments about the DVD player that ships with Tiger. I don't have a DVD player on my machine, but I'm surprised that Apple, given their importance in multimedia and video creation, would ship such a poor DVD player:
DVD Player
I ranted about Panther’s DVD player quite a bit in a previous article on the mini, and just as I expected, the issues I raised in that article have not been addressed by Tiger. Tiger’s de-interlacer and scaler are absolutely horrible and unacceptable by today’s standards. While I didn’t conduct the same level of tests as I did for my review of the DVD player with the mini, all tests that I did run exhibited the same combing artifacts and poor scaler quality as I had seen in Panther. Given the fact that apparently many Mac users had complained about Panther’s DVD player in the past, I’m quite surprised that it wasn’t fixed in Tiger.
CPU utilization doesn’t appear to be fixed either; DVD playback on the Mac mini continues to eat up a minimum of 40% of the machine’s CPU time, although I haven’t seen it peak at 65% since the upgrade to Tiger.
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc...=2404&p=14
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