Netflix has just announced an on-demand video-streaming service offering full high-definition picture quality (so-called 1080p, which has 1, 080 lines in its picture) with 5.1-channel surround sound.

BeagleBoard USES the same processing engine as many smartphones and netbooks, making it powerful enough to run a full Linux distribution and provide high-definition video.

The image is so big and detailed that you'd need 500, 000 high-definition TVs to view it at its full resolution.