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My friends and I resort to using rock band gear cause we don't have two controllers :(
Soooo sick of my ugly lenovo :(
Discovery also has Time Warp at 10, with Blue Man Group!
Eames chair ftw. I have a knockoff in my dorm room :D
Signaltheorist didn't start it. Check the dates on the posts on the roomba art flickr group, half or so are from before Signaltheorist made his.
Or in-ear monitors. I only need mine up about half-way during a flight, and I don't the claustrophobic feeling from active noise canceling headphones.

http://www.headphone.com/products/headphones/in-ear-monitor/
MKV is not a video codec, just a container format. I'm assuming you mean h264 in an MKV container though, as that is what seems to be most common.

As long as the file is encoded at Level 4.1 or below, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC ) this should play it back fine. 4.1 is the standard Blu-ray level. People occasionally encode > 4.1, but rarely.
No, I mean actual 720p.

There's a whole slew of devices that get 720p video streams from Netflix's Watch Instantly library. Computers are limited to the crappy 480p streams.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/do-not-time-netflix-hd-streaming-shootout/
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I am trying to configure out a really dumbed down and intuitive PC for my grandmother. She recently had a stroke and while she is under my care I would like to repurpose a laptop for her to surf and email her children. Anyone have any experience with what input devices and UI's are really understandable for the over 80 crowd?"
 

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