Denon and Yamaha used to do it on all receivers. Sometimes (perhaps not in stores, but available online) they will list dual sets of specs, one at 1kHz with a high distortion and one full-bandwidth with low THD. At least I know Denon does this. However, still only H/K of this group rates with all channels driven - the others are only with one channel driven at either spec until ultra-high-level models.

I believe some Onkyo receivers are rated similarly to the better Denon or Yamahas, but I don't think they rate all channels driven either. Integra may be similar.

The best other brand I know of (other than really good equipment) that rates honestly like H/K is NAD and perhaps Marantz. There aren't exactly Best Buy fare, however.

Yeah, I'd take that.

Boudu is completely right. The damage is done, and no apparent goodwill offerings or "opps our bad, sorry!" is going to fix it, because the root problem isn't what they did but that they COULD do it.

I will never purchase a Kindle or any other such device that allows any entity other than myself remote control over what I have purchased, not licensed (regardless of what garbage they put in non-enforceable EULAs to that effect).

All right I'm game.

The creationing messages are when you're in a party and questhelper queries the other players' quest logs, assuming you're going to quest as a group. It's always done this, but the messages are new.

It also spams a bit when you log in, regardless of party status, I assume as it reloads your own in-progress quests.

Well, their brand is in the crapper right now and Sony/BMG keeps hobbling anything decent that comes out of engineering (read: DRM). So after squandering all of their advantages they actually have to play on a level field. Funny, I have no pity.

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I am fairly certain the Dell is based on a PVA type panel, not an IPS panel. This Eizo is almost certainly boasting one of the best currently available panels in the IPS lineage.

Yeah, this 386 needs replaced.

@Adderz:

Yeah, right now HDDs still have the $/GB advantage. But take note of the 'right now.' SSDs and their flash underpinnings are multiplying in capacity and halving in cost at rates so far in excess of the advances that have been seen recently in the HDD world that we're looking at a 2-4 year window before HDDs are obsolete in not just the moving parts category but also on basis of price.

We've had 1TB HDDs for over 2.5 years now (first one announced Jan of 2007), but just recently was the first 2TB single 3.5" drive announced. So right now we're on a roughly 2.5 year cycle to double hard drive sizes in a single form factor. Whereas SSDs are dropping like rocks in price and multiplying in storage capacity on time scales measured in months.

It doesn't take a genius to realize which of these technologies is going to win. It's just a matter of time.