video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> I currently have an HD tube tv which runs at 1080i.  The nice thing about 
> tubes is that standard definition *does* look more normal in it.

Yea. They don't make them anymore though :(

> But the  bad part is that most HD signals are *expecting* you to have a 
> flat  panel.  Whenever I watch a sports game, I get pissed that the score 
> is cut  off by my TV because they put it on the exact edge of the picture.
>

A lot of Wii homebrew actually does that too. Annoying as hell. It's like 
people forgot what used to be common-knowledge design principles.