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   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.20 Build 8771 (Apr 11, 2007)

   Build 8771 = 9.20 Final
   
   Opera browsing is simply the best experience by far.. Secure also..

2. 
   Review - Paint.NET

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Oct 14, 2006)

   Been testing pre-alphas of PDN3 for a month or so, and it's very stable. Although it's labelled as an alpha, I would consider it beta quality.
   
   A worthy upgrade from PDN2.7
   
   There are more features planned for PDN3, like Gradient Fill (a sorely mission option).

3. Comment - Toshiba: DVD Forum Hasn't Yet Approved Final 51 GB HD DVD After All

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Sep 16, 2007 - 7:48 PM)

   I call BS on this. I find it hard to believe that Sony would need to resort to this. Almost everyone agrees Blu-ray is better in terms of picture and sound quality.
   
   Culled from elsewhere...
   
   Here are some actual stats as of August 3rd, 2007.
   
   There are 154 Blu-ray titles in North America with lossless audio.
   
   There are 43 HD DVD titles in North America with lossless audio.
   
   If you look at five of the main review sites for Blu-ray and HD DVD; Home Theater Forum, DVD Talk, Upcoming Discs, Home Theater Spot and High Def Digest, and add up all the reviews there are just over 900 HD DVD reviews and just over 900 Blu-ray Disc reviews. Here are some breakdowns from those numbers.
   
   SQ Studio
   4.38 Buena Vista
   4.12 Sony
   4.08 Fox
   3.81 Lionsgate
   3.81 Paramount
   3.63 Warner
   3.63 Universal
   3.63 Weinstein
   
   Notice how the two HD DVD exclusive studios have the lowest average SQ rating.
   
   As for Picture Quality:
   
   PQ Studio
   4.19 Buena Vista
   4.02 Paramount
   3.95 Warner
   3.94 Sony
   3.84 Fox
   3.80 Weinstein
   3.73 Universal
   3.66 Lionsgate
   
   Averaging all the reviews to compare formats gives the following numbers.
   
   Picture Quality overall
   HD DVD - 3.85
   Blu-ray - 3.94
   
   Sound Quality overall
   HD DVD - 3.67
   Blu-ray - 3.96
   
   As you can see the difference in sound quality is huge. When you have 48 Mbps bandiwdth for a/v versus the 30.09 Mbps bandwidth that HD DVD is limited to, things happen.
   
   With substantially higher average bit rates on VC-1 and AVC/MPEG-4 encodes and 8 Mbps bandwidth left over above the peaks for audio encodes, Blu-ray has the most consistent results.

4. Comment - Toshiba: DVD Forum Hasn't Yet Approved Final 51 GB HD DVD After All

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Sep 16, 2007 - 10:10 AM)

   All Warner and Paramount Blu-Ray releases are region free, many Disney releases also are, all the Pirates series are.
   
   It's not old releases as you say.

5. Comment - Microsoft Posts $50 Billion in Annual Revenue

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Jul 22, 2007 - 12:42 PM)

   Yep, messed up. Sorted links now.

6. Comment - Microsoft Posts $50 Billion in Annual Revenue

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Jul 21, 2007 - 2:39 PM)

   That is the problem, perception is, that the shortage of PS3 games is something different. However it was no different with the 360, PS2, PS1, or original Xbox. Each console launch has initial drought for 6 months +
   
   The difference this time however, is the console launches are over a year different, so one console is "up to speed", the other not.
   
   That said, I think the PS3 line-up early on, is MUCH better than the initial 360 line-up, which did not get anything decent until Gears.

7. Comment - Microsoft Posts $50 Billion in Annual Revenue

   3.0 Alpha 1 (Jul 21, 2007 - 1:49 PM)

   They have said, there is no price cut on 360 anytime soon.
   
   If they do however it will be interesting.