OH geez, I read about Google using shipping containers about 3 years ago. This is way old news

Well now I am totally confused. I thought all content was stored on HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray discs as 1080/24p and that this content could be sent to a display as 1080/24p if the player supported it (which some apparently do) and that if you had a 2Hz display there was no interlacing and de-interlacing or HD telecining or reverse telecining because the display would then just show each 1080p/24 frame 3 times (and therefore no cadence judder would occur). But, what you are now saying is that the timelines, chapters etc are rendered only on top of 1080i/60 content, so the player has to convert it first? Does this not mean that there is no point in having 1080p/24 output as that signal must be interlaced to a 1080i/60 signal and then converted to a 1080p/60 signal in the player? And does this not also mean that the even if the display is 72Hz we are going to have to rely on whatever substandard video processing the display has to remove the cadence judder?

I've spent a few months researching all the issue related to the optimium player/display combination and am now dismayed to hear I can't feed a 1080p/24 signal to a display.

Please enlighten me and everyone else! Thanks.

I thought the Reon-VX in Toshiba's AX2 was going to process the 1080p/24 that is stored on the HD-DVD, not the 1080i/60 signal that is converted from that source. That would make way more sense than manipulating a converted signal.

As for the comment regarding just sending the signal to the display as 1080p/24 with no manipulation, well there is a lot that can be done to the signal to clean it up. You can find out just what if you go through the information on Silicon Optix website (the guys who make the Reon chip).

Mark, I have heard various stories about how you collared your Yahoo stock by both buying and selling puts and calls, but also that you shorted indices that included Yahoo. I am curious if you would explain how you actually did it. Why did you also short the indices (which would not be a perfect hedge)? Was that because there were not enough puts and calls available to hedge your entire Yahoo position? Did you use the collar and shorting to protect your stock value until you were no longer locked in and then did you sell your Yahoo position as soon as you were no longer locked in? Thanks

Mark, I have heard various stories about how you collared your Yahoo stock by both buying and selling puts and calls, but also that you shorted indices that included Yahoo. I am curious if you would explain how you actually did it. Why did you also short the indices (which would not be a perfect hedge)? Was that because there were not enough puts and calls available to hedge your entire Yahoo position? Did you use the collar and shorting to protect your stock value until you were no longer locked in and then did you sell your Yahoo position as soon as you were no longer locked in? Thanks