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It's interesting to have a low-cost option for iPhone users, but there's no damn way any B-school will let students use an iPhone during some exams where the use of an hp 12C would be allowed...

@veganFreak : I work in the VFX industry, and am a color specialist. I worked with profesionally calibrated CRTs for high-end compositing and editing workstations. I actually tested the DreamColor, and it does beat CRTs. The contrast is unbelievable, the angle of vision is pretty damn near infinite, anfd the thing manages colors with internal 3D LUTs. The only bad thing id the crappy software hp delivers with it to manage the LUTs. with decent software this thing would blow everything out of the water.

Yes it does. S-PVA monitors such as the LaCie 324 and the Dell 2408 have bad contrast shifting in the dark areas when you turn it, even a few degrees. It is simply unacceptable for high-end work. For real color accuracy and colors that absolutely don't shift with the angle of vision, there's nothing but IPS.

Maybe it's not a symbol of the end of the world, but it's a terrible mishandling of the situation. How can you believe them when they are saying they won't do it again ? If they were serious about it, they'd give the possibility for the customers to have their digital copies back, and settle the situation with the (incredibly moronic and greedy) rights holder.

Pirating ? 1984 ?
Excuse me, but 1984 is in the public domain in some countries. Here in Canada, it is perfectly legal to download 1984 and put it on whatever device I want (kindle or not), even print it and charge for it if I want to (and find people to buy my edition).
In a world going global I find the differences in copyright durations between countries more and more strange.

The media sharing capabilities with friends etc already exist via a third-party software which works with every browser out there, opera or not : www.weezo.com .

I like them too. S-PVA is good, but has this annoying contrast shift in darker areas when you look at it from an angle. IPS reigns supreme, and the more modern ones don't suffer from the purble/amber glow that was visible in the first ones.

Looks like it can even control the gamut, which means it has internal 3D LUTs. If that's the case, it could be a killer.
The 2490WUXi (which I know pretty well, I'm using it right now) is already a sweet machine, second only to the hp DreamColor (which is like 1000$ more than the WUXi2). Color accuracy has a price.

The Transformers Blu-ray - all scenes previously mentioned - is very good demo material indeed.

The opening of The Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition, in DTS ES discrete 6.1) is fantastic too. The shock wave when Sauron implodes really goes through my room and makes superb use of all speakers.

I didn't replay my Serenity HD DVD since I upgraded my setup. My sub might just demolish the room. The end of The Return of the King should be pretty sweet too... When will we have the trilogy on Blu-ray ?

Reminds me of something...

"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with."

- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe