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I've heard a lot of students repeat the rumor that the iPhone will be coming to Verizon in 2011. Today a student reported that their dad, who works for Verizon, told them that it was going to be announced on January 6th. Like macrumors, have a hard time believing that Verizon will be allowed to announce it at CES before the 2011 early apple event, so I don't know how much stock I would put into it. I will be watching for the Verizon CEO Keynote speech that morning however.

Yeah, so far I have been addicted to the media features of my Samsung LN46B50 TV. It has pretty great media functions, but VC-1, soft subs, and MKV with Flac are its major downfalls. I've gotten tired of OCRing the .srt files and dealing with the its specifics about supported format in such and such container when its supported in others (wtf?). Its also a little slow and can only jump forward and back on MKV insteak of forward and rewind and its widgets are also utter crap. I want a power efficient PC, because I don't have to deal with such bullshit.

Reviving this thread as I want a media pc to take over serving 1080p MKV with styled soft subs and VC-1 files uncompressed with FLAC audio and 5.1 channels on the cheap. Usual rules apply, silent and cheap as possible to get the job done and be reasonably upgradeable. My ideas so far: Out of stock on newegg but available other places: Newegg.com - ASUS AT3IONT-I Intel Atom 330 PBGA437 NVIDIA ION Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo Newegg.com - APEX MI-008 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply Newegg.com - Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7K2/4G Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE60G 2.5" 60GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Newegg.com - Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan Total comes out to be roughly $400 for something that hasn't changed a lot in a year. Decided not to try to go with ION 2 because of it has some well documented issues the ION does not. It would be even nicer to find a netbook PC that could do the same and still be used on the go, sadly not much luck there. Ideas on this build? I already have Win7 64 professional, a lenova multimedia remote with trackball/keyboard and an external drive with 2TB with an extra bay open for another 2TB in the future. I may add an LG Black BD-Rom drive in the future as I really enjoy the one I have in my main PC right now.

Best of luck Mike!

Happy birthday to you both. Ya'll be crazy.

Happy birthday reks! One more year has passed you allowed headcase to go on not being dissolved. Hope you get better asap so that you can carry us around again real soon.

But... but... the jitter... and the connectors... impedance...

Happy burrthday!

Darn steve, happy belated and hope the holidays have treated you well.

They weren't good enough for me at $250 or at $99 last times I bought them. So... yeah, all universal IEMs suck.

Box of Trinidad Reyes and 1x5 Cohiba Coronas Especiales for my newly seasoned humidor.

No contest.

Got snowed in at home, power went out this morning and should be back on by midnight. Built a fire, shoveled the drive, picked up supplies aka fire logs and beer. We still have our laptops charged with extras batteries and 3g service. I reckon we will make out well with all the christmas leftovers before they get too warm.

Very much may be bullshit, but you sound fucking insane. Lately, just a tad off.

I believe this went viral about a year ago. It wasn't real, but it got a lot of attention.

Merry birthday happy mas to you!

Make mine a double.

Merry Christmas and wish you all lots more merriment in the new year.

Only tweaks I put any stock into was using kernal streaming or wasapi, setting low latency (about 400 if your pc can manage it) and page file buffering. Any read write function whether hard drive, SSD, or ram creates noise in the ground channel of my pc, don't know how that can affect the transport of digital bits exactly. I can easily hear it if I connect speakers to the onboard sound card.

Happy birthday Ken! Hope its a great one!

What is your current dac you compared if you don't mind my asking? Tapatalk

Tapatalk just got an update for the newest version of the vb plugin with some new features that might require updating. Tapatalk

It used to be Samsung on the LCD side a few years ago it seemed. Now with the panel lottery in full swing, I believe all consensus is lost throughout all LCD manufacturers.

I'm not surprised. Droid x media center audio playback sounds plain bad. The low fi stream from pandora sounds more acceptable even. Tapatalk

Yep, if your market was updated which it probably is now if its connected to data. Makes me wish I had put a freeze of the silent market update service on my X. However... I do have a backup on Titanium and a nice SBF file that'll work containing the old market on it should I need it. Evidentally, piracy is already huge on android since all you need is the small apk file to share. I believe Google was concerned people would pay for a game or tool, get all they needed out of it in 24 hours and return it.