At least according to wikipedia, blu-ray does not support storing a movie at better than 1440x1080 or 1920x1080. So while a PS3 can scale the image up to this new TV resolution, it will not create any additional detail or image quality.

The only HD anamorphic resolution blu-ray supports is 1440x1080. That's 1,555,200 pixels. The alternative is to have black bars above and below the frame which uses 1920x816 of the pixels. that's 1,566,720 pixels. So they're basically the same picture quality and scaling them to 2560x1080 won't add anything except…

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The goal of Cinerama and other super wide formats was to immerse the audience. You aren't supposed to take in the whole image without looking around and feeling a little more like you're there.

Off the top using a ladder to get over the fence is what I saw. They couldn't have climbed the fence easily without it.

Parachuting from a plane is far less dangerous than BASE jumping. From a plane there's a backup chute, time to deploy it if needed, and a device that will automatically deploy at 2500 feet if for some reason the person is unable to.

Yeah you can use it for 8.5 hours with the screen on and you surfing the net the entire time. Do you really want to use it as your work computer? It gets much more battery life than that when you aren't using it constantly.

Navigating 3D spaces or manipulating objects. You see an object on the 3D screen and can "handle" it turning it however you want with your hands. In Google Earth you could hold up your hand and move the camera in all six degrees of freedom by twisting, tilting(banking), pitching, sliding, and lifting your hand.

The lights were still on. The middle was sinking, not the walls. Once the middle reaches the ice it becomes a support and takes strain off the walls.

You've got your facts wrong. The 360 was announced May 12, 2005 and released November 22. It's GPU is based on the R500 architecture and incorporates the unified shader feature of the R600. ATI first released R500-based video cards October 5th of that same year, including the X1800 XL which is about equivalent to the…

When the 360 came out its GPU was based on a newer, more powerful chip at the time. About twelve months old tech. By the time the 720 comes out, this level of GPU will be two years old.

I disagree they're more economical. Only the busiest mass transit lines don't lose money. All the rest require tax payers to subsidize service. Rarely is there a direct connection from where you are to where you want to go. So that means traveling to the station or bus stop, waiting for the train or bus, possibly…

Millions of people have shitty commutes. It wastes their time, it's bad for the environment and bad for their health through the stress it causes. Self-driving cars could safely travel much closer together turning an hour of crawling or stop-and-go traffic into twenty minutes. At the off ramps they could turn left and…

Banhammer with extreme prejudice.

Occasionally what the lobbyists want aligns with what the people want. Not you in this case, but I do believe public opinion overall would like it. Not mandated always-on, but the public would like it during rush hour commutes. Computer driven cars could drive sixty miles an hour packed far closer than humans can,…

It was considerably smaller than a CD player, which meant it fit in your jacket pocket more nicely. Back then if you wanted to carry around more than one CD you risked cracking the case, so that meant a special padded case. You got to pick which eight songs you took to school or work and leave out the crap filler…

Perhaps the insurance companies will do the math, find self-driving cars cost them less money, and lobby to get laws changed to encourage automakers to add it.

Freeways will have automated and non-automated lanes. If a human drives their car in an automated lane, the adjacent computer-driven cars can automatically photograph and report it to the highway patrol to bust it.

Even at seven in the morning or evening when you're commuting and tired and just want to be home?

I'm aware of the conditions in the Chinese countryside, and that the Foxconn workers send money back to their families working the fields. Still there are limits in the Western nations of what contracts people can willingly enter into. As an extreme example, we can't sell ourselves into slavery. The workers at Foxconn…