Originally posted by: ripa
I thought the big deal with the x0 player was that it didn't postprocess anything unlike other players and outputed the cleanest possible composite signal read from the disc with a special laser.

I must admit I sorta forgot about the laser, which you're right is different from your garden variety player. Still, as Warp99 points out, there's still a bunch of minimum processing that needs to be done to have even a composite signal out, which the X0 doesn't know how to do for a PAL disc.

I feel this line of speculation is a little bit like watching The Island or Frankenstein: it's fun to think about "what if...?" scenarios, but they pre-assume something (i.e. human cloning, making an NTSC player read a PAL disc) that is still out of the range of possibility. Even though all the theoretical steps might be known.