What’s on my… right-hand monitor?
For the second installment of the “What’s on my…” series, we’ll be discussion what stuff has been showing up on my right-hand monitor over the past couple of days.
Generally I use the right-hand monior for displaying chat, terminal windows and the like. Here’s a screenshot of my desktop:
In addition to this, I use the right-hand monitor for watching TV series, films, etc. This is the topic of this post.
I’ve just finished watching episode 14 of the new US TV series Heroes. This latest episode was called “Distractions”.
Heroes is without doubt the most amazing TV series that has ever been. I’m a big fan of stuff like Lost, Prison Break, The X-Files, yadda yadda yadda. But Heroes is just mind-blowing. This last episode was no different.
I’ve discovered H264, which my computer cannot decode properly. This results in slightly wonky audio and a less-than-perfect image… but overall it still knocks HD XviD out of the water. Maybe one day soon nVidia will release some Linux drivers for their PureVideo hardware acceleration stuff. Then things will seriously kick ass.
This evening I also enjoyed two episodes of South Park on my right-hand monitor. They were the first two episodes of series eight… I particularly enjoyed the Japanese subtitles for episode one, which was where Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan had purchased themselves some authentic ninja weapons from the market.
The last film I had the pleasure of watching was The Last Emperor, which has a fair number of Academy Awards wins, including Best Picture. It follows the life of the last Chinese emperor and offers some interesting insights to the modern history of China. In my opinion it also provides an impressive argument against Communism. Well worth a watch.
That’s it from the “What’s on my…” series for now!