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A geforce 4200 worked adequately on the UT2004 demo on default settings, but I just upgraded to a Ati 9800 pro and can tell you that it improved my framerates, especially in Onslaught during heavy firefights.

A kind BB employee told me that BB Corporate had stores send back 160GB & 200GB drives once they found out that the wrong items were in the wrong boxes a little while ago. They also have some stores physically examining stock when it arrives to make sure it doesn't happen again. Congrats to...

Conjur, btw, are you recording HDTV on your HTPC? I'm planning to build a HTPC running MythTV and I don't think Myth supports HDTV yet. But out of curiousity, how much hard drive space does 1 hour of HDTV occupy? I understand that if I use a WinTV 350 card, it encodes MPEG-2 at roughly 2 Gigs...

Not when you're watching non-HDTV 4:3 tv. I can get *maybe* 9 HDTV channels right now from Comcast, so a 32" 4:3 tv works better for me than a 30" widescreen.

The Costco 30" Flat Widescreen HDTV sale model is Philips 30PW850H. Normally $899, but $100 off with coupon from August 11 through August 17. You can find the coupon with a cashier or at the customer service counter.

I'm not sure if it can't truly display 1080i. When I read that Circuit City answer, it seems like lawyerspeak that could simply mean that the tv is not equipped with a HDTV-tuner... so it could still be a functioning HDTV monitor with 1080i resolution. Side-by-side, another poster says the...

I found out about this on Saturday and am on the verge of buying one of them. However, there's a thread I found about blooming on these televisions. I'll have to see it for myself at Circuit City, but you should read this thread. If anyone owns or has seen a model without the blooming problem...