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General Admission put together a Surround Gaming video of the first six minutes of Just Cause.

I've gone through and updated the videos in the Gallery (and re-uploading to YouTube where needed), to take advantage of YouTube's new offerings. The default video format and resolution is now the "High Quality" version displayed at 840x525 (1/4 of 1680x1050). Under each video is a link to view the 720p version in full 1280x720. It's really nice to see the videos in HD; and the Surround videos have a much bigger impact now.

infernus posted a few days ago that YouTube had gone widescreen. This certainly helps all of our videos, and makes the Surround Gaming videos easier to see. In addition, most everything uploaded after May 2008 is available in 720p HD. By adding "&fmt=22" to the end of the video URL, the video will play in 720p (if available).

The "&fmt=18" string still works to get rougly 480p resolution. I will be re-uploading all our older videos to the WSGF YouTube Channel so we can take advantage of the new 720p capabilities.

I wanted to take a few minutes to wish all of our US readers a Happy Thanksgiving, and to thank everyone for their help and support over the years. The site recently celebrated its 5th anniversary, and it has certainly grown in ways I could never have imagined. Thank you to everyone who has helped me the site a success through donations of your time and money.

If you play (or plan to play) an Xbox 360 on a 20" or 22" monitor, you're in luck. The New Xbox Experience (NXE) supports 1440x900 or 1680x1050 as a native resolution over VGA and HDMI. This ensures that the new Dashboard and games scale properly.

The new dashboard makes good use of the increased resolutions, and the new Netflix streaming service looks fantastic. Here's avoiding scaling every time you can. Enjoy! Hit up this thread to add your Xbox Live GamerTag to the WSGF community list.

Crowing won the TripleHead2Go in our recent raffle. He decided to give it to Racer_S. We are now taking donations so that we can get three widescreens to go along with it. Racer_S has been invaluable to the WSGF community with his widescreen and Surround hacks. He has done all of this while working on an old 4:3 monitor.

If you have ever used one of his hacks or patches, please donate so that we can finally give back to him. See the links in the left nav to donate through PayPal or Amazon.

The submissions are in, you can now vote for your favorite wallpaper. The winner will get: $50 Amazon or NewEgg gift certificate (supplied by Ibrin).

In our recent video contest, we did not give away one of our TripleHead2Go boxes supplied by Matrox (Dem Pyros chose to pick up some storage from New Egg). So, we are giving away the 2nd DTH2Go. All you've got to do is post in this thread and you're entered. There are no restrictions on who can enter.

Two months ago the WSGF launched a contest to win my TripleHead2Go setup - a TripleHead2Go, Ergotron triple monitor stand, and Ibrin's three HP LP1965 monitors. GeneralAdmission won the contest with his widescreen and TripleHead mods for Battle for Middle Earth II. These extensive mods update the campaign maps in both games to work with widescreen and TripleHead displays.

Mobster007 put together a Surround Comparison video using a timedemo from COD4. You can grab the video on this page in the Video Archive.