"LCDs do not emit radiation like CRTs. You don't need radiation shields, or sit at a certain minimum distance. Besides, Hollywood is not a very reliable source to gather your information from! You can sit next to an LCD all day and if your eyes feel the strain, it's from the images, not from the radiation." ahhh thanks, thats good to hear, guess ill also have to pick up an LCD hd tv when i finally jump to HD. ill have to look this up some more though. about the hollywood bit, i kknow they atleast need to base events like that on something believable. for example they cant make a certain character die from cancer because he drank too much water cause that would be completely false. so if LCD's cant cause cancer why would they add that to the movie? "Some do have the budget though, otherwise companies like Alienware and Voodoo would have been long out of business, but instead have been bought by Dell and HP, respectively. They can't be doing that bad if those two corporations are willing to buy up boutique vendors." well from what i can understand from this comment, i figured, you were assuming that because alienware and Vodoo were still in business and willing to buy up boutique vendors, that they were doing good even though you didnt find any real proof on their sales. and that is why i brought up the xbox assumption paragraph. "What you are talking about is optimizations. Yes, developers do it all the time. It can swing both ways though: Developers can make a game run leaner or meaner. Normally they aim for the meaner bit (more of everything) instead of leaner (keep everything the way it is but optimize it for lower-spec'd computers). How a developer decides to implement is their own decision. PC gaming is just moving towards 64-bit operating systems and multicore CPUs so there is also a learning curve for developers. 64-bit vs 32-bit and multi-core vs single-core are different. Same reason why developers have a hard time with the CELL." alright, thanks, i think i have a better grasp on this now. well this is late enough for me, goodnight.
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