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Joe Rybicki of Official Playstation Magazine joined hosts Patrick Norton and Robert Heron on the 9th episode of DigitalLife TV!

Here's the deets:

• Stanford Racing wins the DARPA Grand Challenge! ExtremeCyborg sent a reporter down to cover the race. 
  
  
• Jim from Singapore Wants to know if broadband boosters that "decrease latency" work?
  
  
• Do you live for SMS? We looked at LG's VX9800. It might be your perfect phone, at least if you want a keyboard, stereo speakes and a big screen. Patrick showed off the QWERTY keyboard in action, along with Verizon's VCast video, and talked about the problems of browsing the web on a phone, even over the fairly fast EVDO network.
  
  
• Wondering what PS2 users in Japan live for? Simulations like Guitar Hero Joe Rybicki, from Official PlayStation Magazine, brought the game in and showed us why it got a 9.8 out of 10.
  
  
• You've sent us a ton of HDTV questions... Robert's got answers on the show!
  
• Joel from Pittsburgh PA asks...
  I was wondering since my computer monitor has a resolution of 1280x768, would the picture be similar to what you would see on a 720i/p HDTV?
  
• Ismael, from Queens, NY asks...
  I was wondering what the cheapest way to 720p is? Flat, Tube, Rear
  projection, front projection?
  
• Jeff, from Elkhorn, Wisconsin asks...
  Is there a noticable difference between 720p and 1080p?
  
  
• Tip of the hat to PCMag.com for putting free antispyware and free antivirus tools thru the lab wringer. Like free software? Check out Free Software: Good, For Nothing
  
• Robert's "most highly recommended tool" for beating back spyware is SpywareBlaster (works with all popular browsers; no program to run in the background; easy to use): You have to purchase the software for autoupdates, and the free version requires manual updating. (They also offer a new tool for analyzing EULAs for interesting words and phrases.)