that geeky dude

No time to write a real post (I’ve got two in my drafts, but haven’t had time to go over them), but I thought I’d toss a few things out here :

First, news about the Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Update has hit Joystiq, and all of you Tversity and Winamp Remote users rejoice, for Mpeg4 Part 2 (aka: DivX and Xvid) will be supported natively! Hurray for not having to sacrifice CPU cycles on the desktop for transcoding to WMV7/8/9 for video playback on the xbox 360.

Second, I purchased a new monitor. More specifically, I bought Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24″ LCD Monitor. It’s a very, very nice monitor. Running at 1920×1200 gives me a decadent amount of screen real estate, and World of Warcraft looks absolutely stunning. It’s even let me clean up my interface a bit more. Granted, finding 1920×1200 wallpaper isn’t exactly the easiest of tasks, but after resubscribing to Digital Blasphemy for a year, that need is taken care of. However, I now remember one of the reasons I prefer D-Sub/VGA over DVI for most things, and that’s the complete lack of an “auto adjust” feature over DVI. I’m having to hand calibrate the brightness/contrast settings, and I haven’t quite gotten them down pat yet.

More to come later when the work day slows down a bit.