"Where ever the files are generated from,  the power burn is at a small cache, microcontroller, & display. For continuous movie play...those components now equate to 20 hrs."

Flash aside...the above is the burn....and they put it in front of flash in a manner that emulates DRAM. Where, in my opinion, it allows them to draw from the flash directly with out shadowing virtual file management apps. They should just have to wake it up, seek, and stream(read).

doni