Once, a soccer fan commented about how boring oval racing is. I had to remind him that he was a soccer fan, and many people unfamiliar with the "beautiful game" find it, and its low scores, boring.

Cox Cable carries E!HD.
I've seen "The Soup" on that channel, which is not yet in HD. Oddly enough I haven't seen Chelsea in HD; even though I watch her show regularly I've only watched it on the SD channel.

I just wish the lane splitting motorcyclists would let me pull my car up along side when they are first in line at a stop light.

I have to counter the above by saying, the only Fujitsu product I've ever owned is a 55-inch PDP. I guess the HVAC people don't make plasmas. Hmmm.

I suppose for some, travel involves sacrifices, but if you're staying at a Ritz-Carlton-level hotel, not having a DVR is a big sacrifice, as well as not having unmetered access to movies.

Also, those sign-in pages on most hotel networks really disrupt the use of certain kinds of dynamic websites such as Google Mail.

Of course, why would the hotels take such things in to consideration? They seem to think that charging $10 for a 50-cent service is their main path to profits.

Sometimes 1080i@60 video is generated by 3-2 pulldown from film that was shot at 24 fps. Obviously a 24p format would be optimal. It would be slightly cheaper in bandwidth to send that material at 1080p@24. The 1080i version has more fields but the codec can also see more redundant material between the fields since the "real" frames are 24ths of a second apart, not 60ths.

riverside_guy, currently the people who are aware of deinterlacing issues are the ones who also know which chips or chip sets do the best job of overcoming them, so you'll see the names of the deinterlacing chips in the literature for the displays or whatever component does the deinterlacing. You'll also see the chips mentioned on forums like www.avsforum.com. I'd mention the name of one of the most prominent but I can't spell it reliably. Also, you'll see such trademarks as the AVM ones used by Fujitsu and PureCinema used by Pioneer. You could also google for "chroma bug" to learn about a problem that occurs in decoding interlaced MPEG video. I've seen the chroma bug and it can really mangle red objects under the right circumstances. The issue is discussed and documented all over the place, but at the moment it might not be done at an accessible, novice-friendly level.

I owned an '85 Dodge Daytona. It was a reliable car, but I sold it after 6 years and bought a '91 Dodge Stealth (base model, SOHC motor), which I retained as a second car starting in 2001. It has run better than my BMW in some ways. It has way more charisma. I love the startable-from-5th-gear torque. Parts are starting to be a problem, so I wouldn't recommend it as one's only car.

I was wondering if it was a bad idea to make an optical system out of wood, which changes shape as it ages and as the environment changes during a given day.

Brian@7:
The only homes for sale in the lower price ranges (condos, duplexes, etc) have HOA's. So if all the HOA's do the same thing due to a widely-believed myth, you have to either accept it or pay more for a non-HOA home. I was board member of an HOA in the late 80's. One has to be an activist to keep up with what an HOA is doing. It is much more involving than being an effective citizen in other groups.
I believe California law requires the same things from HOA-member sellers as Illinois.

If your goal is to get the analog broadcasting holdouts to broadcast in digital and return their analog spectrum, your biggest problem is not technical, it's political. That means that Bob Miller's troll about switching from 8VSB to DBS-T is way off the point. When they designed the transition to have an open-ended period of simulcasting, it was the biggest con ever. The NAB are going to fight tooth and nail to keep simulcasting until the 20's and beyond. Mark my words.