Will my PowerBook play high-definition DVDs?

Noticed that Netflix offers some titles on HD DVD and am wondering if my PowerBook G4's drive can play them.
Thanks in advance for any help!

You may be able to connect an HD drive to your PowerBook, but that's only half the solution. I'm not sure if a PowerBook has enough horsepower to decode HD video fast enough. For example, download an HD movie trailer from the Apple site and see if your G4 can play it smoothly. Mine can't; Apple's system recommendations for HD at 720p or higher say "1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 or faster Macintosh computer." I'm not sure if that's a fair test because the trailers are probably not encoded the same as an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc, but the point is that it's probably worth asking around some more on that subject.

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Jim,
I cannot believe you are wasting my time and the space of this forum with your irrelevances. It would have been better had you just tried to answer my question, which is the purpose of these forums. Why engage in useless chatter?
I said nothing about any great sonic difference betweein 16/48 and 16/44 digital audio; I said "marginally."   In English that means very little difference. I'm not going to prove to you with distortion and frequency response plots that there is some minor difference, it is a fact of life. You, in fact, just stated a difference. The difference between a 24 kHz cutoff and a 22 kHz custoff is a difference which you give, to back up your absurd statement that there is no difference. This can actually translate to a minor, difference in THD at higher audio frequencies, but who cares?   Well, you apparently care, because your beligerant non-reply to my question was that "fewer...would notice ." In English that means that some would notice.
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