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Is that a maternity stormtrooper suit?

It's a fruity stormtrooper by the look of him. Or her.

Speaking of her....

If you've avoided having your eyes burned out or your brains scrambled by the star wars freaks,

Quote from: Trippy on May 03, 2006, 06:24:19 PM

Quote from: Hokers on May 03, 2006, 05:38:40 AM

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Then again, these are a lot of the same people who can't figure out how to set their HDTVs so it doesn't horribly distort the non-HD channels.

At risk of sounding like a noob, but can I have some more info on this. My regular channels look fine but I have not adjusted anything specifically for this on my TV.

Here's a basic primer:

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5140690-3.html?tag=arw

Also you need to be careful if you go the black bar route since that can cause burn in with various display technologies (flip back two pages in the above link to get more info).

I should point out that in my original statement, I'm fundamentally disagreeing with the solutions posted on the page Trippy linked to because the "problem" IMO lies in tying to stretch 4:3 into widescreen in the first place.

Maybe I'm just hyper-sensitive to it since I get headaches all day from dealing with things like correcting for varying pixel aspect ratios; I do know a lot of folks I run into don't even recognize the distortion until I point it out.

Pillarboxing is the way to go for regular NTSC. No distortion or cropping of the picture, so what if you don't use all the horizontal space--the programming wasn't shot with it in mind and you should be used to seeing old "Star Trek" episodes or whatever it is in 4:3 anyway. BTW, avoiding a display that's prone to burn-in is always a good idea, even if you're not doing this; things like videogames or DVD menus or anything that has elements in exactly the same spot all the time can cause it. Note that some displays that are prone to this do have a feature that will slightly shift the image periodically to help avoid this sort of thing, but it's not going to move it enough to deal with a larger feature like the black bars.

Stretching, well, depends on personal taste I guess. This is the option I generally see set on widescreen TVs. If you prefer it that way, fine, just don't expect to see it at my house :)

The third option can give a really weird fisheye look. It's most noticeable when it distorts an object you expect to be a particular shape, like a circular logo suddently becoming an oval.

Don't really have anything against Star Trek, but I ran across this today and I have to post it somewhere.

I'm not American, so I don't really know who Barry Bonds is, or why the joke is funny. Baseball player?

Also, it's time for the Heavy Hitters:

One of the mods should split this shit off into it's own thread (no, not the Den), so we may continue to post amusing images of retards and let the others continue talking about video)...

Barry Bonds is the most famous baseball player in the world who is poised to eclipse Aaron's homerun record. His hobbies include being a dick and rubbing steroids all over his body in unholy ecstasy like White Goodman with the pizza in Dodgeball.

I've heard of Babe Ruth, that guy who was on Seinfeld, and the ones who were on The Simpsons. Darryl Strawberry was one, who I understand later got in trouble for something or other. Oh, and then there's Pete Rose, who I've only heard of because the WWF used him a few times. Gambling while playing. No idea who Aaron is.

Don't bother explaining them though. It'd like me telling you about Merv Hughes, Dennis Lillee and Peter Daicos.

Point taken. Let's never speak of this again.

By the way, I think you have the best avatar since WUA changed his.

Just for refernce, Bonds still has a lot of work to do to get to Hank Aaron's record.

48 homeruns, that's two seasons tops.

Quote from: dusematic on May 05, 2006, 09:01:32 PM

48 homeruns, that's two seasons tops.

I wish it was a smart bet to put down money on Bonds getting thrown in jail or something before that happens.

Unfortunately, he'll probably come back Just to break the record, then retire.

That is freaking awesome.

See, Philadelphia fans are good for Something.

That pic of bonds looking at the fan banner is teh awesome.

And then he wouldn't sign #713.

He is such a winner.

Apologies for the on-topic question: are there any price estimates out for the 360's HD DVD drive coming out at the end of the year? I can't help but think that my own purchasing decision between the 360 and the PS3 will be heavily influenced by the answer to that question. In fact, I even suspect that the console war will have an influence on the format war. Maybe I'm being short-sighted.

Quote from: Cyrrex on May 15, 2006, 06:39:06 AM

Nothing but speculation at this point. If they wanted to compete head-to-head with Sony it would be priced somewhere between $100 - $150 ($150 assumes a 360 price drop come holiday season). However Microsoft has said that the HD-DVD will only be for playing movies (though of course they reserve the right to change their minds at a future date) so they may price it as standard computer peripheral in which case you are probably looking at around $200 - $250.