Here I would have thought that at least one time in the last 30 years Apple (or any other major manufacturer) would have paid Microsoft for something, at some point, whose costs would have been passed on to the consumer. That's never happened? Crazy!

What nefarious things could be done, honestly? On my android based phone they could send email, make phone calls, send some texts...that's about it. Although if they wiped my Hex Defense scores I'd be pretty pissed.

I guess if you read enough derp, occasionally you have to join in. lord knows I have :P

The magic ingredient is water. Yes, ordinary water. Laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.

Well, your 3rd point was a pretty ridiculous straw man argument. Like, really ridiculous.

I gotcha. I did 'calibrate' my TV based on some settings from a popular HDTV website (forgetting the name) to be best tuned for movies. It's in my basement (no windows), but I'll check out the settings...can't remember what it's set at. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to give it another shot.

I admit I've never watched that many movies in the theatres, but when I finally came home with a massive TV and a BluRay player (PS3) that supported 24p, I couldn't wait. 24p is what the source material is really shot in, it was going to be epic. Set up everything, made sure 24p was on, and got rolling.

It sucked. Sucked bad. Maybe it's the movies I chose, but any time the camera even somewhat slowly panned across the screen it the limitations of 24p became glaringly obvious. After my wife and I watched a few different movies I was ready to return my TV thinking there was something wrong with the HDMI input. Then I remembered the 24p factor, disabled it on the player, and watched in glory as the screen refreshed at a rate that supported my brain.

I don't get the draw of 24p...is it a videophile thing, like people who only listen to vinyl?

Right, but I'm sure above poster is implying that said docked device will actually work properly.

Anyone get this version yet for the 360? Ordered mine through Amazon but their release day shipping failed, kind of want to just pick it up locally. Is the regular edition the same minus the pre-order email activation code?

"DMS" is a very, very common term when acquiring hardware, as is "spares". Any decent project plans for hardware failures and diminishing supplies.

I'm gonna make the general assumption that the US military doesn't have it's number crunching cluster hooked up to the public Internet to stay up to date with every firmware, so they're probably still using the cluster just fine.

Can't tell if you're trolling or serious. Install a whole new server just to run PMS (which runs on Windows just fine already anyway...) to transcode video files (which the GP said they didn't want to do)?

As in something with playlists that supports gapless playback? That's pretty common these days.

Roger Waters has owned the rights to "The Wall" since 1987, not Pink Floyd.

Holy mother of Moses, I get to brag about Windows Mobile for a second!

Every time I click a link in an email it displays the full text of the link and asks me to confirm that I want to go to that website.