Agreed, Josh.

There's a section at the Best Buy stores I've been to that *does* have the televisions in a brighter part of the store, but the bulk of the larger and better sets tend to be in a darkened area along the back or side wall.

The folks looking to pick up a 30" are probably a little less demanding than the hardcore home theater types wanting a 60", and if it sucks... well, the 30's are a lot easier to bring back later.

Circuit City on the other hand was always a nightmare. The only darkened part of the store was the audio section... what the heck was THAT about?

There is something to be said for checking display quality using movies featuring people of color. Sure it makes inspecting the "black detail" sound like a pun, but it's an awfully good test of real world display quality.

Stores love Michael Bay type movies with lots of explosions because dynamic range gets people excited, but when you're trying to watch a movie and realizing you can't see anything but Denzel's eyes, you know there's something wrong with your tv.

Oh, Darren... No. No, there's not.

He is in Los Angeles... You can't throw a stick here without hitting someone at least as crazy as this guy. There's not an advocacy organization on the planet with enough funding to corral all the crazies: and this guy is together enough to file a legal briefing with the court, so he falls on the very high end of functionality.

He's not trying to bite people who walk past him on the street and I bet if I accidentally made eye contact with him, he wouldn't scream obscenities and spit at me even once.

That would mean no CMOS... which while we can dream, it doesn't seem likely any time soon. CMOS offloads faster than CCD, but each scanline is temporally offset from the one above it. Thus the wobble.

Faster and faster CMOS will do this less - but it can't be eliminated without changing sensor technology entirely.

Mpeg2 but no mpeg4 support?

What alternate universe is this thing from?

1. Cut a hole in the box...

Welcome to Guantanamo, may I take your coat?

Once these antennas go into production we'll be able to generate even more power than we could today, thanks to global warming!

Thank you, Exxon-Mobile! Powering tomorrow with the environmental catastrophe of today.

Maybe this guy can make it happen...
http://www.mgamble.ca/blog/category/iphone-asterisk-port/

"the only songs i know are the ones that play at starbucks."
You mean like, in general? Because you really oughta get out more.