Not a single comment about updated Android SDK and T-Mobile rolling out a HTC based phone this year?
Regarding upscaling DVD players, try before you buy, with your own disks if they’ll let you.
IBM PCjr – the very first REMOTE Ctrl+Alt+Del, the range on that keyboard was incredible. 
Don’t bother with a DVD player. Get a POPCORN machine.
http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/
You can’t squeeze more pixels from a DVD than what was used to build it.
Wikipedia: DVD-Video discs use either 4:3 or anamorphic 16:9 aspect ratio MPEG-2 video, stored at a resolution of 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL) at 29.97 or 25 FPS.
Blu-Ray OTOH can play discs that are encoded from the source at 720p or 1080p.
Over twice the pixels.
To help see the difference, use you computer. Play a DVD quality video on your PC without resizing the window or maxing it.
Then get from a Torrent a true HD video – search for 720p or 1080p, and play that file on your computer.
MS should revive this unit and add Vista, to make it a real pig.
What up with that “hiccup” at around 2:00? The audio goes “This seems {hic}”, and then on to the next topic.
Huh.
Named my arrogant boss after it – PC Jerk.
I plugged in a 25 year old PC Jr and monitor that had been sitting stored for years – in disarray
Started like a champ
Try that with your new “modern computers” in their time
I still have my old 486 win95 machine sitting in the corner hooked to an 11×14 flatbed scanner. It’ll still scans stuff unseen by the naked eye. I keep it around as a daily reminder that my network is faster than my local drive, sans RAID.
“25th Anniversary of PCjr” – Yeah, and the 24th Anniversary of the PCjr FLOP !!! Too little computer for too much money !!! And that crazy keyboard !!!
#9 That keyboard has a really crappy feeling to it. It takes stevereeno’s reality distortion field to make people go “what a cool keyborad”
#10, Pedro, Yeah, and make people PAY FOR THAT KEYBOARD TOO !!! Mac Fans just drink too much Apple-Flavored Kool-Aid !!!
The dvd-upconvert has been around for a while, I bought a hd-dvd player with the feature in it back around thanksgiving. It works well enough for what it is. As for HDdvds, I’m content to pick up movies in hddvd format for 50-60% off. Unlike blu-ray. The problem with both formats wasn’t the format itself or the picture quality (roughly the same) but … no extra content for the price.
Why pay 20% (or more) extra for a disc that effectively has the same content but at a higher resolution? Hence why the market hasn’t worked. You’d figure hollywood would have figured that out by now, but they’re too into trying to contain the movie download hype to actually do any new interesting content.
go figure.
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