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I was thinking "cheat cartridge" all the way through that vid, but it turns out it was posted by Neversoft

The problem is at the moment the Wii sends out a standard 480p signal. This is the same sort of quality as DVDs. Most new LCD TVs work at 720p so the TV takes this signal and invents all the extra lines on information needed to fill its 720p display. This problem can't be solved unless Nintendo launch a new 720p capable Wii and all new games are native to 720p. The reason why people are asking for the Wii to upscale the 480p signal to 720p is because cheaper TVs are very bad at upscaling. If the Wii took on the upscaling work then people may, or may not, see a drastic improvement in picture quality At the end of the day though this isn't really a very good fix and it is unlikely that the Wii has enough processing power to run a game and upscale at the same time. The solution i'd recommend is to either stick with a CRT TV or, if you need a HDTV for something else (like 360, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD) then buy a Plasma screen.

Digital Distribution really isn't part of this argument anyhow. Its 5-10 years away from being mainstream and the kinks being worked out. Blu Ray will win this format war and then fizzle out once an IPTV standard can be found

No, you can't. The idea is you won't need to I think some of you are confused about what "digital distribution" for movies will be. It won't be faffing around with computers, avi films etc. but a separate device like the V+ or Sky box that is hooked up to the internet. You choose the film you want and IT STREAMS I believe Virgin are doing something like this now? That is the future. Downloads are merely a stepping stone

Whichever one drops they're players to reasonable (sub-£80) levels first. TBH im predicting Blu Ray at the moment, there seems to be a lot more buzz about the format It already is. LOVEFiLM, iTunes, Xbox Live and many other services already offer movie downloads. They will really start to take off in a few years once our internet is up to speed and HDCP enabled devices have penetrated the market enough for all movies to both be encrypted and sell

Ah, i see now. Its £102 more than the default chip then, you had me thinking you could actually buy them at £102 each! I was away to buy 2 just to be greedy :p Oh, and Jim take a look at BuildYourOwn.org.uk Very helpful bunch, will probably recommend something down the lines of: Motherboard: Asus P5K (Either the basic P5K or SLi version if you think you will use it) CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6750 GPU: Sapphire Radeon x1950XT RAM: 2GB Geil PC-6400 800MHz (4-4-4-12 timings) HDD: Samsung Spinpoint (whatever size) DVD: NEC/Optiarc DVD-RW 20x SATA or 18x Labelflash IDE (depends if you want faster burning or label printing) Case: Antec Sonata III (inc 500W Antec Earthwatts PSU) For computers the adage goes "build em cheap, build em often!". Use last years tech if you can, it's usually better value. You can build a reasonable gaming PC off the price of a 8800Ultra alone! Sure it won't be "future proof" but you could sell it in a year, build a new rig and still be quids in. That is true future proofing

Toshiba 32WLT68: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000JU0H22/kelkoocpc-lcdtvs-21/ref=nosim#moreAboutThisProduct Ignore the Amazon score, no idea why it's 3.5/5? Probably the HotUKDeals lot who were spouting off about £550 being a rip-off for a 32"... This is widely regarded as one of the best LCD TVs ever made, take a look at some reviews and the WLT68 thread over at avforums.com Sharp LC-32RD2E: http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/content/products/details/?modelcode=SHA-LC32RD2E The RD2E is a little over you're budget (£599 + £15 p&p) but join ED members club (£20) and you get a free 3 year warranty! It's the second best 32" set around at the moment, after the Sony D3000

Holyest Cow! Where!?!?!

Theres a 26" LG set over at Digital Direct. £299 IIRC It's not a particularly current model but it has a good rep as being a reliable set and is close in performance to the Samsung R7 series sets that most people on here have

dnt mean i know everything Im more of a software person tbh, this is a new game to me. Just because im tech mod doesn't mean i've been there and got the t-shirt, it just means i know how to use google properly

Well the colour thing is probably down to tuning or a bad panel, the rest is down to resolution. Scaling is VERY BAD and the further over 720x480 you go the worse the picture quality will be. This is counteracted by good picture processing, which a monitor won't have because the processing is intended to be done by a computer

Think im gonna swap to a C2D (or maybe C2Q), the AMD procs may be better in price:performance but an overclocked C2 procsessor seems to be the way to go! Any Mobo recommendations? This is the part that confuses me, most bloomin sites only recommend £80+ gaming mobos I wouldn't trust any company that goet sued for selling "HD Ready" TVs that have no HD capable connections, despite claiming to take 720p over component. Even if that was a TV and this is a computer, im suspicious from the off...

You probably got some dodgy 3rd party panel. It's the gamble you take when you buy Samsung unfortunately

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Been trying to spec this up for a couple of weeks now and i've finally come to the end. I've got a few phone calls to make tomorrow with regards to availability but other than that this looks like the spec: Case - Antec Sonata III inc 500W PSU - £70.83: http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?id=14038 (Scan have no stock and eBuyer are £80!) CPU - AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ - £101.05: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=640628 MOBO - Asus M2R32-MVP ATI Xfire Xpress 3200 - £57.56: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=641009 RAM - Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 - £67.73: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=255300 HDD - Samsung Spinpoint 250GB - £37.87: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=247245 DVD - Samsung Lightscribe SATA drive - £18.79: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=466662 GPU - ATI X1950Pro 512MB - £85: Phoning eBuyer to find out if/when they are due more in, if not i'll prob get from Scan (for an extra £8!) Any thoughts? Anyone notice any stupid mistakes? (i've made a few, i think the people over at buildyourown.org.uk will be glad to see the back of me!) Oh, and i need a monitor. Any recommendations?

Some cds have the album art in them. TBH i can't see why you don't want the art, but if you really don't want to see it then just change the view Theres probably a better solution, but im too tired to find it right now

Dell are deffo above average in reliability. I know they have a lot of horror stories, but then they do sell more laptops than anyone else Other than that Toshiba Satellite Pro and IBM laptops are pretty sturdy. The problem here is though that you either choose reliability with low spec or take a gamble and by a cheap high spec laptop and hope it doesn't break I've not seen any company that has high spec, reliable and cheap laptops. You get 2 of the 3. Max.

Holy Cow!

If the cost MS that then imagine how much they'll cost us!

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1072238&postcount=4 http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusuk.org%2Fprojects%2Fvga2scart%2F&ei=cL6oRuKHC5CWQZr1hN8I&usg=AFQjCNGAVQ0NkqspatH7qb81FUkcLHMQsw&sig2=BQWmnFxY5FaNHx4XAxfoOA Tis the only (cheap) way to do it mate. Until recently nobody really bothered hooking computers up to TVs so there are very few graphics cards that can do it to anything other than a HDTV. Hope you are lucky though

Thinking about it, it might well be worth waiting til you get to uni. MY uni built laptops at very competitive prices and you can also order from Apple or Dell with a 10% discount on a university campus

I've been on, just not very much and mostly on Vegas. Been working near 50 hours a week + keep going out boozing and getting distracted by other things like shiny objects. Dunno why but i can't seem to get into any 360 games at the moment. Im enjoying Vegas, but im not hooked and im kind of bored of the other games i've got. Might pick up a copy of Medieval 2: Total War on PC, the Total War series has a habbit of eating up every minute of my spare time!

You can't output VGA to S-Video without a signal converter, thats why you're having trouble. VGA is an RGB signal, S-Video is, well, an S-Video signal. The 2 aren't immediately compatable. VGA and RGB Scart are though and there are instructions on the net about how to make you're own VGA-RGB Scart cable. For some reason no shops sell them so you'll have to wire one up yourself

Im in recreational because i wanted to play with people who are shit. Might be in the wrong group though, espec given my foul mouth. Still, can't be doing that bad with zero bad rep :p I've tried that trick, never works They sent me CoD2 last week, it's not even made it as far as my 360! Anyone fancy a game on it this week some time? I won't play it otherwise, completed the single player about a year ago on the PC! Just fancied seeing what the difference was between PC and 360

Same here Sweet! +1 brownie point to Shino! (if we had rep...)