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HDMI 1.3: Better DTV images, sound in 2007
Why today’s best HDTVs aren’t worth buying
Blu-ray / HD DVD stalemate boosting interest in combo player?

The first two posts concern HDMI 1.3, which ups the ante from 8-bit to 16-bit colour (!), as well as uncompressed, 3 Mbps audio.

The last post posits that Blu-ray and HD-DVD are tied in the race to consumers, who seem not to care very much about the whole thing. It is my sincere hope that Blu-ray vs HD-DVD will become just as meaningless and wasteful as the DVD-R vs DVD+R debate was a few years ago. Who even looks to see if they are buying -R versus +R these days? I sure don’t. Actually, all I look for is “DL”.

Update @ 2006-12-22 10:18:
Found these on Slashdot — very interesting!

HD-DVD movies sorted by picture quality
Blu-ray movies sorted by picture quality

Note to self: when setting up mysql on a Mac using MacPorts (formerly Darwin Ports), install mysql with the following:

% sudo port install mysql5 +server

That bloody little “+server” part was a royal pain in the ass, let me tell you. I would think that mysql installs would be servers by default. There should instead be a special “+client” flag to prevent server installation! Egad.

Oh, and for some reason, the wp-config.php did not like the host name localhost. Instead, use 127.0.0.1.