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Earth to nomu: (a) all television and console content from hereon out is 16:9. (b) people don't always have access to their television. Could be that your kids are using the tv, could be your wife. Could be that you're at work. Could be that you're in your home office and you just want to...

No. I use my TV and my monitor for my console/movie usage. 2 people can't use the TV at the same time. Sometimes the computer is all you have. It's absurd to use this line of arguing, you may as well be arguing for a taller than wide rectangle aspect, so long as it has more pixels than anything...

Better be 16:9 and not something arbitrary and used by no media like 16:10 and 5:4.

And the only reason to need DisplayPort is... oh wait, it's just the same digital signal in a totally incompatible format so that computer manufacturers didn't have to pay 2 cents extra per product for an HDMI license. HDMI isn't pointless just because you don't use the audio part. It is...

LOL, display port. Epic fail.

Same here, I want eIPS at 1080p. PVA has good contrast, but it accomplishes it by murdering shadow detail and gamma stability. It's essentially useless technology next to IPS, I don't know why Samsung keeps crapping it out. Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

Sorry, but for anything portable, the load times and energy usage of a mechanical drive is a huge turn-off for many people. The new version is also far more pocketable.

Hilarious how half the posts in this thread, or any PSPGo thread, are complaining about ergonomics. Why the hell would a flat thing with curved sides be worse than a flat thing with rectangular sides? Dee dee dee. It's unfortunate that UMD, a battery hogging mechanical disc drive, had to exist...

You're looking at it ass-backwards. With 16:10 you just have an arbitrary addition of pixels that guarantees black borders on 16:9 standard material. Why is that good? Why would I want that? That incurred cost is far greater than the real estate benefit because 1080p is PLENTY of vertical...

This was a response to your assertion that 1080p monitors lower the monitor's value. Why are you responding with overscan gibberish that is a moot point in the argument since it could afflict either ratio equally? What flexibility and functionality? You mean guaranteed black bars or vertical...

Correct, it's reducing the vertical res slightly to eliminate black bars or improper scaling on 16:9 content. The intelligence of the internal scalar will determine which of those you'll get, but one of them is guaranteed. You lose a measly 120px of vertical desktop real estate, but you remove...

16:10 is a standard for nothing. Not for blu-ray, not for HD consoles, not for HDTV. And by using such a deviant ratio, you've gauranteed yourself black bars for television and games that otherwise wouldn't exist, or a vertically distorted image should your monitor's internal scalar (like most)...

Huh? That would be the proper procedure. What is your infatuation with 16:10 anyway? Do you support 2050 or 1920 horizontal resolution? You can deviate from standards all day on either side, it's of no benefit because there is no tv program or game that uses 16:10 or 5:4 ratios. All it does...

albovin, you are confusing the hell out of people. The only difference between 1080 and 1200 vertical resolution is 120px more unoccupied space. Since games and tv use 1080p, specifically, you want a 1080p native. A 1200p native will require special scaling support that most monitors fuck up in...

Genres that don't work very well on kb/mouse don't come to the PC for the same reason RTS games rarely come on consoles: sales depend on the consumer having that device. And since 100% of consoles don't come with mice, and 100% of computers don't come with gamepads, there you have it. OP, I'm...

Some users? All I saw was one user posting multiple times that his dad worked for Sony, yadda yadda. Sound like BS to me, but yes software emulation would be nice at some point.

I got a PS3 because it's quieter, it's got blu-ray, it's got free netplay, and I can replace the hard drive with any 2.5 brand 320gb one off of the egg for $90. Lots of games, looking forward to FOM2 and Bioshock SE. My only real caveat is I still have to keep my PS2 around for ps2 games. Really...

DisplayPort is DOA. Honestly, there is no way consumers are going to accept a different digital standard between computer monitors and televisions. The two have practically become synonymous. "We're sorry, in order to connect your electronics equipment or console to your computer monitor, you...

Search a bravia product on amazon and look at the description. There will be a chart comparing all the models and what features they have.

The charcoal, grooved bezel with no rounded corners and a rectangular gold logo on the 263 is fugly. Hope they improve that. Look at LG or HP's stuff to see a nice design.

10e, if you have the NEC IPS, why not do some side-by-side shots with your camera of the desktop and a game? Without a reference in the same shot by the same camera under the same conditions, we have no idea how close or far away this TN is, and a lot of us are skeptical.

I don't think it's a *bug* with the fan, I think it's the fan trying to not be annoyingly loud, which you have now eliminated so you can void the warranty and get a negligible performance increase. Good job?

As far as I know, there is no such thing as a TN lcd television. Those shitty panels took over the computer monitor market (unfortunately), but since their viewing angles are so bad they never gained acceptance in the television market, creating a large competitive field of ever cheaper MVA and...

I'm going to post this from a PS3-centric point of view, so when I reference this generation's console features, don't bother pointing out the ones that the 360 doesn't have yet. With this generation making several important strides (netplay, automatic patching, HD resolutions, digital...

Going by majority opinion, Paris Hilton matters and Britney Spears is one of the greatest musical artists of our time. Let's stick with the difference of opinion rationale instead of assuming popularity = superiority.

The problem is that the average person doesn't know that different panel types exist, so all they will see in an IPS panel sitting next to a TN one in a store playing some crappy slideshow is a higher price. So IPS became niche and expensive and stayed that way. An unfortunate fate. Best we can...

You're kidding right? I am not a console company, my criticisms aren't for marketing purposes. When was the last time we saw a Sony rep calling out MS for their even longer streak of bullcrap, some of which can never be fixed until next gen? Oh, right, never.

I have never seen such a negative campaign waged against another console company. This is immensely stupid. How about this Microsoft: instead of hiring some goon to sling mud at Sony for not copying your idiotic achievements right before MGS is released, look in the mirror and next time deliver...

OLED is so god damned awesome. Waiting for this is pure torture.

No, the 7100 and 7150 are for the 630i chipset. 730i hasn't been released and is a codename right now, bottom of this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NForce_700

I've been waiting for this integrated graphics chipset for months. I thought it was going to get released this month, but haven't heard a peep... anyone else eager for this got any news?

Certainly http://www.behardware.com/articles/654-4/xl20-samsung-s-1rst-lcd-led.html better than LCD monitors with standard CCFL backlights. Differences can attain up to 50% and more commonly 25% between two areas.

LED brings one key improvement over CCFL: brightness uniformity. Backlight bleed and hotspots, especially in dark scenes, have always plagued CCFL lcds. An LED grid eliminates this random ass defect.

Lot of people complaining about EAX. "Oh, I don't want to get a different card because they don't support Creative's proprietary 3d sound format." Are you kidding me? THAT'S WHY THEY CREATED IT. YOU'RE DEPENDENT ON THEM. Stop supporting this nonsense company and suck it up. Something better will...

I tried to get people off of Creative stuff years ago. But this being a gaming forum, Creative has always held this weird position of the market, far past the MIDI era, wherein they create these proprietary 3d sound nonsense and declare themselves the nvidia or amd of sound cards. And people eat...

This whole LCD mess is getting to me. I'm sick of researching panel types, I'm sick of the manufacturer lotteries, I'm sick of the cheap and large becoming mainstream and decent getting relegated to uber-expensive niche products. I just hate it. Who is to blame? The 2007wfp has been $400 for how...

Look, I like XP and Office is good, too, but you need to understand some things about Microsoft. It is not cool to be so rich that you can release a console a year early and conceal its known defect rate, secure a userbase and steal away developers from the competition, and then pay BILLIONS for...

Doesn't look to me like Sony chose to sacrifice much to turn a profit. They sell the console below cost. They don't charge fees for netplay or lock you into hard drives that only they sell. At launch, they didn't skimp on HDMI, heatsinks, or the optical drive. People wanted backwards...

I hate to sound like an utter bastard, but this is why everyone was saying buy a PS3 even if you only wanted to watch movies. Its one of the lower-priced players, its firmware updating makes it immune to profile updates, and its resale value wouldn't have been effected if blu-ray had lost since...

You don't know what you're talking about. Mandatory doesn't mean discs have to use it, it just means it's part of the spec and players have to support it. Only 20% of HD-DVD discs have lossless audio. Transformers itself didn't have lossless audio, they were strapped for space because of extras.