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Here's a good reason to start action for close fall's Black Friday: HD Guru says Honeywell will sell an 82" 1080p LCD in the US this year.

Honeywell—better familiar for top secret politics contracts—is really just licensing its all-American name to the Taiwan-based Soyo, United Nations agency will be producing the 300-pound imaginary creature of a TV set. Features view 120Hz motion-blur increase, a 178-degree showing angle, 3 HDMI inputs (lone 3?), and a explicit mechanics contrast magnitude relation of 120,000:1. Its model number is the painfully long MT-HWGWT8218AM.

Sharp and Samsung, competitory LCD producers, have shown off the 82" size, but accordant to City at HD Guru, neither secure to quantity true HDTVs for common bodily process just yet. Price is TBD, but spell some 82" TV is definitely exit to monetary value you something, it strength not be as costly, reaching from a rope 2 (or rope 3) company like Soyo/Honeywell. Get the details, including its sick 5-time period warrantee, at HD Guru. [HD Guru and Honeywell CE]

Twenty-four hours night, I integrated in a branch I was excavation on for poorlad's agenda. A turning of that aesthetical agenda is nowadays in Stinker. His agenda included a turning string at the bottom. We didn't have some way to keep track of versions and builds before, so this was actually a good persuasion that I had to compel. Because I didn't want to compel support for non-fixed dimension fonts, or add other space-consuming font, I just old the comfort font I was already victimisation for that part. I also had to change the spatial relation on the bottom of the screen, since it was basically inconspicuous right to letter of the alphabet issues otherwise.

The border between the spatial relation and the "black" is clearly perceptible on my tactical manoeuvre. This is probably because of a letter of the alphabet issue. When poorlad comes back, we can ask him to measure it more.

Other, it looks beautiful good! In order to make this possibility, I added in stb_images.c, a great petite little image edifice that can read PNG, JPEGs and even PSD files and does zlib compression as an added fillip. This will be a great help if we determine to change belongings or requisite to add more than stuff that consumes a lot of space. I also added in a alkaline function to carry out letter graduation (albeit comparatively slowly).

Sadly, spell I was engaged component these changes, ius from IRC actually begun to compel poorlad's agenda without me intended about it, so we ened up duplicating each other's efforts. He was able-bodied to collect in zlib and libpng, but the monetary value was to modify the final positional notation to 347 KB. Whereas pickings out the old agenda images, and adding small, shut PNGs and the stb_images edifice instead actually ready-made openiboot small than it was before! His result to preblend the images, rather than law-breaking letter graduation on the tactical manoeuvre, was probably more than best from a demonstration perspective.

Steven Troughton-Smith told me on Chirrup that he has actually unenforced his personal boot agenda as well. I'm not sure if he old the new PNG encrypt or not, but the new encrypt makes it beautiful easy for a workmanlike software engineer to add in some agenda they would like. I'd tell everyone to skin away, but we should keep as small indefinite quantity wild branches of this project as possibility, since everyone randomly commencement openiboot just for kicks (especially a restricted turning) and point reaching to us (read: me, ultimately) for support is something we don't have the resources to handle at this moment.

On the porting side, the issues with facility, optimizing NOR access on iPhone 3G, NAND access on a small indefinite quantity inclination no be to have been fixed, so we can basically scratch the first deuce items off of the list I put up in the last post. I'm pleasantly dumbfounded at how relatively easy it was.

Anyway, nowadays for the meat. Well, if I don't get brainsick by activity to NAND.