@scion, I read through all the posts (over a 100) and see absolutely no reference to anyone getting a video wider than 854 pixels to play. So even though I eventually got an 854px x 480px video to play full screen, the video is zoomed about 143% which equals loss of detail.

@everyone, Here is a personal video I shot last February during the worst snowstorm I've ever seen in Texas. The quality of the videography sucks because I shot it with a handheld dSLR camera while trying not to fall on the ice. The video was shot in full HD 1920px x 1080px at 24fps. I used Handbrake to convert it to an 854px x 480px MP4. The NC flat refuses to show a video with 1024px wdth no matter what I do. The difference in watching this video on the NC zoomed and watching a true 1024px x 576px video is great. The NC basically degrades video in order to show fullscreen. If this is an Android thing then Android sucks even worse than i thought. Hey Google, can you at least spell TABLET you freaking idiots! Enough with the small screen smartphone crap adapted to larger screens!

http://w5jck.com/NOOKcolor/Snowmegeddon-2010.mp4

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