I am wondering, why doesn't the scroll wheel work like the right side scroll bar which is always 100% responsive?

My theory is Google is trying to make their search engine as fast as possible and by not clicking the enter button it reduces 1 second and also appear to be faster.

No disrespect to VLC but I just did a side by side comparison with MPC HC and VLC player and the MPC HC player looked much more clear - http://i.imgur.com/Mc2oS.jpg. Any reason behind this?

I use both VLC and MPC-HC on my machines. On the lower end computers I've noticed a large performance difference between the two: MPC-HC can crank out 720P on my 5year old laptops without hiccup, but VLC stutters all over the place.

I've heard some recommendations on how to configure VLC to be more responsive, but the fact remains MPC-HC performs better "out-of-the-box" than VLC.

I still keep VLC around for anything MPC-HC has trouble playing, however, as VLC truly does play just about anything if it is playable at all.

Of course, MPC-HC uses GPU while VLC didn't until this version.

Yeah, I use VLC strictly as a fallback. It's always MPC/mplayer first.

But VLC is invaluable for always showing something.

Do you have any of the sharpening shaders turned on in MPC? I'm not sure VLC has anything like that yet.

The issue here is not sharpening, but the colour output space, and yes MPC-HC uses shaders to do it, while VLC trusts the GPU so far.

And some nVidia GPUs have a wrong colourspace output, which makes the colour to be faded...

I've noticed a difference in quality also. I compared mplayer and vlc, mplayer looked definitely better.

Very unlikely.

Here MPC-HC, uses shaders and special renderers, technologies that VLC doesn't use on Windows.

But Mplayer and VLC use the same technologies, same decoders, and same output modules technology (xv, x11 and plain d3d)

nVidia driver?

And we have 3d hologram without glasses with 3DS and OLED TV's as thin as a paper and 1gbp/s Google broadband letting you download Blu-Ray movies in less than 10 seconds yet we live with them today like it's nothing.

Whoa, none of those things are commercially available yet.

Looks like the future is in 2-3 years? :D

This is stupid. People don't use Usenet because it's too hard to use and costs money, not because people don't talk about it.

Use FreeVPN.

Is it fast enough?

Don't know the exact speed but around 80kbps which is basically just enough to stream Hulu.

I remember something exactly like this except it was an Asian lady and it looked like a real photo. Also instead of looking away from the cursor her eyes were following the cursor.

Vista wasn't so bad, to me Windows 7 is Vista with more speed and better UI.

An oldie but a classic - http://content.flashtrackz.com/games/files/internetkilledthe...