Krisboats

Go and find a tree?

Regardless, that's where it goes.

No, its actually a limitation of the fielsystem itself. Changing to ntfs will solve that but if your planning on using it with a mac too you'll need to separate partitions on the drive. One NTFS for windows and one either FAT32 or the mac standard.

Ha ha, that was actually pretty damn good. Played

Well actually, yes you can. Though to a limited degree. There are several places in which the upscaling may take place, the player itself, the tv and through the A/V receiver if you have one. The standard basic upscaling is Nearest neighbour scaling in which the pixels just get bigger. As far as i'm aware this is just a standard type image that the tv's will show when you plug in a standard definition source and the tv has a go at upscaling or even not bothering at all. It looks very jagged round the edges and isn't too nice to look at. The next type is bilinear scaling with extra sharpening. This does a better job and can create a sharper image hats nicer to look at, this is the kind of thing most upscaling dvd players will do. The downside is a slight halo'ing around certain parts of the image and in rare cases some detail is actually lost (it is an improvement overall though). Then obviously there's blu ray and hd dvd which looks a lot better because the format has a much higher bitrate which means they can have a f**king tonne more detail in them. I forgot to mention that it makes a big difference depending on what you have equipment wise and what its busy doing. Sometimes the image can be scaled twice which is a bad thing... it only needs to be done once and should be done by the best piece of equipment. If you have a crappy tv then a specific upscaling player is probably better. If you have a nice high end tv that's got some pretty good upscaling stuff inside then you won't need the player. Here's the situations where the picture will be scaled twice: DVD (576i) > upscale to 720p > TV is 768 lines, so it's scaled up again. DVD (576i) > upscale to 1080i > TV is 768 lines, so it's scaled down. DVD (576i) > upscale to 1080p > TV is 768 lines, so it's scaled down. Here's the situations where the picture will be scaled once (ie. what you want!): DVD (576i) > NO UPSCALING > TV is 768 lines, so it's scaled once. DVD (576i) > NO UPSCALING > TV is 1080 lines, so it's scaled once. DVD (576i) > upscale to 1080i > TV is 1080 lines, so it's scaled once. DVD (576i) > upscale to 1080p > TV is 1080 lines, so it's scaled once. As you can see, the only time the image won't be scaled twice is when you have a 1080 line TV and you have the correct settings on your DVD player. Also, you'll need to check that the "1:1" or "Exact pixel" setting is on (or whatever it's called on your TV, if the setting exists).

No, i don't

I wouldn't, that's more expensive per week than the house I'm currently living in... and i get 20mb broadband and a huge room.

I swear you appear every f**king time i make that mistake!

Maybe it should have read "do it, unless you're an idiot" then

I'd say that buying a dedicated blu-ray player will be far more beneficial. There is the cost factor to take into account though. The cheapest blu-ray players I've seen are still around the £100 mark, but they'll up scale normal dvd's with the benefit of doing it slightly better than a cheap £30 player and they have the blu-ray functionality for when BR's become more mainstream. The ps3 is the best choice as its up scaling capabilities are brilliant, but again that costs even more. If your after a cheap player to make your existing dvd's look a bit better on your HDtv then go for the cheap player. Make sure to read reviews for one that doesn't introduce a lot of noise and sparklies during the up scaling process though. If you've got a bit more to spend go for one of the other two respectively.

Like clicking yes a couple of times and changing from US to UK during the setup options? If you've got a spare partition back it up and dual boot windows 7 with your current OS, that way there's no problems at all (well, very few). 2gb should be pretty nice, should be ample for most games as well if your into that (other than high res textures on games like crysis in which case 4gb is needed).

I'd be inclined to say that overall, it will be slower. Having just 1gb of ram will be holding you back.

I put the same graphics card as that on ebay just before christmas and expecting something like £35 i went to work and came back to find some idiot had bought it for £75 and paid through paypal for it. Deal went fine and he left good feedback a little while later. To say i was shocked was a bit of an understatement

It won't be amazingly slow, but at the same time it won't be particularly fast either. If you had another couple of gigs of RAM it'd be fine.

Is this gee athertons sister? Its a shame all the same, hope she has a speedy recovery.

Seconded, the new taskbar is loads better.

For those about to rock, ACDC

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You can if you want, just make sure its either an anonymous poll with multiple options or a signed register whereby people who agree leave their name or a yes or whatever.

Well it isn't is it... its 20%. Enough people objected to it for whatever reason for 80% of the participants to actively choose "no". 20% is not a good result with 80% opposing. Whether you think they would or not does not change the fact that people do. In a similar way someone created a poll with just one answer as opposed to a signed register of agreement? Your right though, a clever person would realise how utterly useless it is as an accurate representation and disregard it.

It didn't have a credibility anyway if your looking at it percentage wise as a percentage dictates there are two factions or outcomes, you didn't have this so it isn't an accurate representation. You might as well have left a topic as an open register rather than an anonymous vote. I guess you never studied statistics? People feeling isolated out of a poll because the answer they want isn't there tend to just tick yes anyway to get the feeling of contribution they wanted when they opened the thread to participate in the poll... in which case your results were useless to begin with.

Especially given all the other options to vote with

Ha ha

I'm going to warn you now, if i see you when we're out riding again you WILL be going home on a t-rex.