DL.TV

episode 76 (1x76)

: 11, 2006

Robert Gets Nuked By a Virus: * Welllllll... maybe not nuked, but he had a Trojan try to sneak a keylogger onto his system... * Trend Micro's free online virus scan sorted him out.... he still won't run an antivirus on his gaming system. * BTW: be careful where you download files! Viewer Questions: * "If I own a VHS tape of "The Matrix," is it legal to rent and copy a DVD of the Matrix, to ensure my investment is in more permanent format?" asks Ryan, from South Dakota. (Morality vs. the DMCA... guess which one holds up in court... and guess which side disgruntled parents with DVD thrashing toddlers falls on?) * "Is there a cellphone that can replace my digital camera?" Chad from Grand Rapids, MI wants "3 megapixels at least!" We know of one such phone in the US, Nokia's N80, demoed it a bit, and talked about a similar phone heading towards Verizon users. * HDTV or monitor shopping? Doug from San Marcos, CA wants to know "about the Contrast Ratio specification. Is a higher number better or a lower number?" The answer might surprise you. * DL.TV on his PSP: David should check out PSP Video 9 * iPod Video vs. MPEG4 vs. H.264... William's wondering if they're all the same thing. (Nope!) HowTo: * Robert shows everybody how to turn on file exertions (and some other nifty things) in the Windows XP Folder Options. Man, y'all love file extensions, Robert's got the email to prove it, and it's a nice way to figure out when something is a nasty 'ol .exe file instead of a nice safe .txt file! * If you've seen this message: "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below." you need to open that link with an RSS reader instead of your browser. Unless you've got, say, Sage loaded in Firefox, or use IE7's new built in RSS reader. Or the RSS reader built into Google or My Yahoo. You get the idea. News: * Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 7 Critical Flaws Pa