http://www.matroska.org/

a present idea which WILL make your lady smile.

http://www.boreme.com/bm/DEC03/a/m_faithful/fr.htm

i know it's not a miracle, but it's very f__ing kool

i watched the evening news of swedish tv last night.. fullscreen in good quality and not choppy.

there are tons of BBC related channel and even japanese and ukrainian tv stations.

local american crap channels and weird independent boring channels..

but worth a try..

http://www.holersoft.net/

channellist:
http://www.holersoft.net/channellist.htm

and

if you can't afford the registration this month, do a search on http://www.piratebay.org to download a hacked version that works for longer than 5 minutes.. & dont forget to buy a copy if you like it