launchd sounds conceptually similar to svc.startd under Solaris 10. A new way of managing startup doesn't stop something being a UNIX.

480p on a 1080p TV is going to be a lot of upscaling - being on a 55 inch TV is just going to make this worse - I don't get why your surprised by this. We have a 32 inch 720p TV and the Wii looks great on it - have no idea how it compares to 360 or PS3 on there as we don't have those. I don't think that your Wii will ever look better on that TV as you simply have a huge resolution mismatch. On the other hand, I am no Audio/Video-phile so someone else might know better.

To be fair though, this is really 32 cores doing fancy tricks to look like it's running 256 threads simultaneously. Of course I am jealous because I only have T2000s and T5220s ;-)