OK, that was a bit harsh. I re-read Ripa's post, and it actually does sorta make sense. The idea isn't new, and is pretty much about the most difficult way of getting video off a PAL disc, but the "what if...?"-ness is pretty cool.

A lot of what makes the X0 player great, though, is exactly the part that definitely DOES NOT deal with PAL, and that's the NTSC decoders in parallel, and all that other sort of post-processing circuitry. If you have to ditch that, then why bother with an X0? It would probably be smarter to gut a 2950, which can already play PAL discs natively.