I like the GT-R. This is carping, but a $75K-125K car should have been designed with hydraulic lifts for the hood. Seems really antiquated for this technological masterpiece to have a hood stick hold up the hood.

Charter Communications is the absolute WORST when it comes to technological advances. You guys know they're still stuck on that POS known as Moxy? While Verizon, Comcast, Warner move ahead on HD at a fantastic pace, Charter is absolutely slow in their markets.

My city, Reno, NV is actually a "standalone" community that has only Charter as it's cable provider. Not sure if it's a contract with the county or if other companies don't want to build new cable infrastructure, but having Charter as the only choice stinks. Why couldn't we haven't gotten stuck with Verizon or Comcast instead? I've vistited other cities with friends showing off their HD service and am amazed how much Charter lags. Amazing those buffoons in St. Louis still are operating.

Thank god for sattellite as an alternative.

Detroit,

Change/modernize or suffer the like the slow moving big three and UAW. You were lucky to have the Super Bowl awared to you but that won't come again for at least a decade. NAIS is all you have left of significance so be warry that LA or NYC might steal it away.

You have to pay to play.

TrentD,

Right on the money my friend. The above poster is obviously fairly new to the home theater arena because anyone who's been in this hobby should know that Fujitsu arguably the reference standard for plasma picture quality -- 3~4 years if I remembered correctly. Nothing but great write ups about their pic quality from respected editors such as Tom Norton.

Fujistsu just didn't have the capacity to compete with the larger OEMs in the now commodity plasma market. Certainly their plasma became overpriced in the last few years but that doesn't mean they were technically inferior. Far from it.

Schumi's still the king.

Wagon wheels! That's what they are. Kudos for the guys here who coin the term as that's what they exactly are. Don't any of these people understand the concept of unsprung weight?

Cammie Dunaway...ahhh that's where the former Yahoo! Chief Marketing Officer went to. Good move considering Yahoo's current status.

Tim: unfortunately that won't be played out as it's a settlement, not a ruling.

Ben: Props for obtaining this info. There have been some mighty panty bunch speculators out there regarding this player.

Sean and mcrexx: Yes, the player will be able to do internal decoding of all the formats. Read HD Guru pre-production review: http://www.hdguru.com/?p=184

As nostalgic as I'd like to be, I'd have to agree with Travis that Hakkinen is a stretch. DTM is one thing, being out of Formula 1 for EIGHT YEARS (!) is another. Schuey retired and Coulthard is showing some grey at the beard. Everyone from that era is about gone but the Haik wants to come back at this late stage of the game?

Dunno. Good to see him in the paddocks though!