I’ve never been one of those weird audiophile types. They’ve always struck me as a wee bit odd listening to John Coltrane, in the dark, with their eyes closed, suspended from the ceiling by elastic bands, completely nude. You know the sort of thing. One of their other bizarre habits, and one which is also [...]
Part three in my quest for home cinema perfection has arrived, the Onkyo TX-SR875 is now taking pride of place in the living room! Have a look at this! Look at all those inputs, look at the amazing number of HDMI ports. Just look at it! It’s a work of art and no mistaking. I’ve [...]
So it finally happened, Toshiba have stopped fighting it and put HD DVD out of its misery like a horse with a broken leg. Of course it wasn’t always this clean cut, I for one backed HD DVD at the start, preferring it to Blu-ray for its inherent backwards compatibility and strong standard feature set. [...]
It’s finally here, after waiting for what seems like forever, my new phone has finally arrived. I’m so excited! There will be more on this news later I suspect.
02.14Samsung R700
I’ve just bought a laptop! And after spending three days installing Windows XP on it, it’s now usable too! You see it came with Windows Vista pre-installed and although it looks absolutely gorgeous, Vista isn’t the most straight forward OS to use. After unsuccesfully trying to install Photoshop, Homesite and Cute FTP I called it [...]
07.11PSP Slim
Don’t you love E3? Ok, it’s a little less grand this year but all the cool shit still goes down there! Not only do we get the new Halo 3 trailer (jeans creaming optional, thank you Leprekorn) and the Killzone 2 trailer but Sony have only just gone and released details of the new and [...]
As anybody that knows me will attest, I’m massively into my games. It all started when my dad bought me a second hand ZX Spectrum+ (proper keys and a reset button!) in the mid-eighties and snowballed from there, I’ve had practically every console ever made and love the whole scene to bits. Currently under my [...]
I sat on the phone for 48 minutes last night all in the vague hope someone at Microsoft might answer the phone. As before, fat fucking chance. So I made a decision, if Microsoft don’t want to fix it I’ll get it fixed myself and send them the bill. Right on! Let’s see if I [...]