Sadly, dvd releases usually manage to fsck things up: Dark Knight was 4:3 (dammit), even going back to "Fearless" was also 16:9 (well, the Chinese w/ english subs I got my mitts on)....and the US release...4:3.

Sheesh, WTF y'all.

Wonder if the DVD's just get scrod, but the BR gets 16:9. (prolly not)

Wow. An iPod with a 9-inch screen? Sounds like a netbook to me.

Fighterpilot, i don't understand that whole Larrabee pdf, but the introduction and the conclusion work for this old combat flight simmer. I was waiting for a good deal on an X58 mobo for a i7-920, but I think I can hold out long enough to see more info for the i5 Larrabee now. It's a new socket too, won't fit an i7 board.
darryl

The Blu-ray article at the Baltimore Sun is dumb. The reviewer did not like Blu-ray movies because they were in wide-screen and had black bars at the top and bottom unless he stretched the image or zoomed in. That's the way that the movie was filmed, you dolt!

After reading the Ars antitrust article I ran into another on Ars talking about AMD taking an imparement charge on ATI's value ... again. It's irritating that they bought ATI for lots of cash when they shouldn't have, sold off the massive chunk of ATI that was the TV and PC Tuner IP and sell Video chips at impressively low amounts of money to consumers and then have the balls to say "Maybe ATI wasn't worth that much to us" when all they have left of ATI is a stick figure hopping on one leg holding it's left arm in its right. It's their own dam fault ATI's losing value.

Dual Core Nanos? Were are the single core ones. I would much prefer to have a Nano then a Atom which is what I have now.

Why is it that the Asus Xonar D1 (PCI) has no extra power plug while the DX (PCIe) does? I briefly compared them visually and they look similar. Is the PCI slot able to provide the necessary power whlie the PCIe x1 on the DX isn't? Or was there a redesign that allows it to work with no extra power.

Very interesting PDF article about the Larrabee architecture.

C|Net snags reports: VIA readying dual-core Nano processor
...they've only just barely shipped the Nano (with their own EPIA boards, mind you), and folks are already thinking that the DualNano is around the corner?

laughable. C|Net needs to look at their VIA history books. ;)

*spoken by a huge VIA fan*

Well a widescreen movie with black bars on the top and bottom (same with DVDs of course) on a modern large LCD/Plasma is still a far bigger picture than the old "fullscreen" crap on an old, smaller, CRT. Televisions are made for broadcast television firstly. If you really want to have a screen that resizes, get a projector and some cinema-style curtains mounted on your wall!