[Freddy]

Can't wait for this !  Feel free to post other trailers here as I have seen a few floating around.  Here's the blurb...

TRON: LEGACY hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 17, 2010 in Disney Digital 3D™ and IMAX® 3D

TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that's unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn (Oscar®- and Golden Globe®-winner Jeff Bridges), a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade—a signal that could only come from his father—he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son embark on a life-or-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe—a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape. Presented in Disney Digital 3D™ and scored by Grammy Award®-winning electronic music duo Daft Punk

[Data]

Its films like this that are going to make me get that Blu-ray drive I keep promising myself. 

[Freddy]

An internal one for your PC or a standalone for your telly ?

[Data]

For my PC Freddy, been looking into it for a while. Just made a post about it on Datahopa.

Blu-ray on the PC


EDIT: For me the PC and TV are one and the same; all my TV comes through Windows Media Center or the BBC iplayer, and my 37 inch TV is my monitor. I know Im strange

[Freddy]

Not strange, I think we will see this more and more.

My BD is a standalone one with the TV as it is the bigger screen and more comfortable for me to watch.  The BD player is linked in to a mini home network and I can watch internet TV and stream media to the telly like photos, movies, music etc from the computer.

So a slightly different arrangement but the same outcome.

[Data]

I guess you are right Freddy it is going that way, I have been using a set-up like this since XP media centre came out, actually before that with the old ATI media centre thing, hmm what was that called, can’t remember but back then it was a bit unusual or strange. My PC is nearly all my gadgets in one box, hifi, TV, DVD, video recorder, games machine. 

I can see advantages doing it either way though, like you or me, for me being able to play PC games on the big screen was a must.

[Freddy]

I ran a 8-10 metre HDMI cable from my video card to the TV so I could play games on it.  Driving games are nice, but I haven't been playing games much lately, something that will probably change once I finish this course I am on !

Here's another Tron trailer that I only just discovered, it's been out a while, but is nice.

[Data]

Does look cool this film.

Now I’m’ confused, do you also run long leads for your in-put devices, keyboard, mouse, joypad, I guess a USB hub on a long lead would do it.

[Freddy]

The PC is in the same room and is near the sofa.  So I can use joypads pretty easily.  I haven't figured out a solution for games that need the keyboard yet, but wireless seem the way to go for that.  The mouse is wireless and has a long range.

For the games I play with keyboard I actually prefer to use the PC screen - RPGs etc.  But for driving and arcade games it works out fine with the joypad.

[Art]

I recently (few months ago) purchased a Logitech Wireless Desktop MK300 that consists of a 1200 dpi mouse, keyboard (both have auto off to conserve batteries) and a USB receiver.

The combo is fantastic and I couldn't be happier with it!

They claim 15 months for keyboard battery and 8 months for mouse (both have auto shut-off) as well as convenient battery indicator and much more.

I bought it at one of those membership warehouses for about $30 USD but it would be a bargain at $50.00.

I think the keyboard is guaranteed for at least 5 million keystrokes but that's not high on my list of priorities to count them! 

The range is considerable and quite effective.  My only minor complaint is the mouse seems a tad small but then again, I have very large hands (span from thumb to pinky is 10.5 inches / 26.67 cm.)

Other than that, I am really quite fond of this Logitech combo.

My Lenovo combo keyboard / mouse went through batteries faster than I could buy them (even with trying to be conservative with the on/off switch).

Just my officially unofficial observation!  This should be in the "Product Review" or Hardware section but it tied in with the convo so there you go.

Be well....

[Freddy]

Sounds like a nice bit of kit Art.  This mouse here is also by Logitech and if you use decent batteries you can get a similar life span.   This is the only bit of kit that I have from Logitech, but it is quality.  If I did get a new keyboard then it would probably be from them too.

[Data]

I used to use a wireless keyboard but have gone back to USB, for me I didn’t like that the keyboard didn’t have a caps lock light, a small annoyance but it caught me out too many times, not looking at the screen typing in a few sentences then Doh! Its all in caps.

Maybe there are cordless ones with small LED lights but I haven’t found one. 

[Freddy]

Hmmm....thanks for the heads up, I hadn't thought of that.  They must have thought of that I hope by now.

[Art]

There are no lights displayed on the keyboard.

The Caps Lock and Num Lock briefly display on the screen
when depressed. Other than that, if I accidentally hit the
Caps Lock button I immediately see those silly large
characters on the screen,

I really didn't need a tiny light to tell me their constant status.

Small lights even LED's would cause the batteries to take
a serious hit as battery life has been a major issue for many
years with cordless devices.

IMHO this is such a trivial issue not to take advantage of a really
nice wireless setup, but to each their own.

Just my take.

[Data]

Well I agree Art, it’s the battery life that prevents the use of LED lights on cordless keyboards, a little odd really when you consider there is a bright LED in an optical cordless mouse, personally I would like to see a keyboard that has a dim LED that comes on when Caps lock is on, after all it only stays on while in caps lock mode.  

I do much of my work on the PC, mainly websites and invoices and for me time is money, so not really a trivial issue when you’re typing in a load of HTML only to find the cat has stepped on the keyboard and what I have typed will not function.

Very annoying  

EDIT:
Suspected culprit