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Looks kinda chopped. But either way its pretty funny. Even though the Cowboys are my team.
 
The link in the article to the screen blocking a punt was pretty funny. The idiots designing the stadium were so caught up in how large they could display ads to the fans, and forgot about what the stadium was going to be used for.

In other windows news... Win 7 gave me a BSOD the other day after updating. It would immediately go to a blue screen at startup, so there was no way to get it running to fix it, even with safe mode. finally after the 6th or 7th time of trying safe mode, it popped up the message that the update failed, and I was able to do a system restore. Lesson learned? nothing. Same ol' thing, don't trust the updates.
 
i had the same issue with 7 on my netbook, it was the display driver. a week later the driver was re-updated and it worked fine.
 
Dustin_m said:
The link in the article to the screen blocking a punt was pretty funny. The idiots designing the stadium were so caught up in how large they could display ads to the fans, and forgot about what the stadium was going to be used for.

In other windows news... Win 7 gave me a BSOD the other day after updating. It would immediately go to a blue screen at startup, so there was no way to get it running to fix it, even with safe mode. finally after the 6th or 7th time of trying safe mode, it popped up the message that the update failed, and I was able to do a system restore. Lesson learned? nothing. Same ol' thing, don't trust the updates.
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The overhead display is a score board and it met and exceeded league minimum height requirements. Therefore the "idiots" you speak of are the NFL for having their standards too low, not the architects, engineers or the Cowboys brass.
 
Samba Blue Screen nuke is back in windows too (Vista and 7). Been restarting my desktop support guy all day today. :D
 
Hondadude141 said:
That stadium was the BIGGEST waste of money anyone could have spent...
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itll probably pay for itself in 5-10 years. and not only that....i didnt see anyone hit that score board in the minnesota game. guess we'll have to wait for the giants to come to town to see if it's really an issue when games matter.
 
i work about 1/4 mile from the new stadium. its pretty nice. can see it from my office window
 
Its got to be a chop, if windows was down, the display wouldn't be working. It doesn't just scroll what the hell ever happens to be on the screen of the computer, it scrolls what it's program tells it to.
 
reikoshea said:
Color accuracy is shit is my BIGGEST nock on LCD. The upscaler in MOST LCD panels is trash from 5 years ago that make even clean SD signals look terrible. Mid level plasmas have better scalers than the mid level LCDs. The only time that i can think it would be reasonable to own an LCD over a plasma is if 1) you have a windows that shines the very essence of the sun onto the TV 2) if you already think all the people your favorite TV shows dress like cartoon characters 3) you really care about the $10 a YEAR you save with an LCD over a plasma.

The Anti-Reflective glare coating gets rid of the 'glare' excuse and all plasmas are equipped with a program that will release images that are burned in (which will be required very rarely even if you don't follow the instructions in the owners manual).

The reason MOST people buy LCDs over Plasmas is the conditions of the store their viewing in. A room that is infinitely bright at all times. That being the case they retailer turns up the brightness and contrast ratio to insane levels to make the picture look a little better. And the one 'issue' plasmas have is they are not as bright as an LCD, but in a normal family room, even with the curtains open, they are still bright enough to get an awesome image into the room for an ungodly low price.
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:confused: Wrong thread!
 
Totally awesome. I played tons of video games up on the big screen in the planetarium I used to work in. It was pretty sweet, especially with the concert stereo system in there to rock out to.

The strip screen definitely looks fake to me- how the hell would Windows scroll the message across a weird aspect screen like that anyway? I don't think it would happen.

We'll see if it screws up at the U2 concert in October. I'll have plenty of time to look at it. ;)
 
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