Old Man Rant . . .
Kids eh? Don't know they're born etc . . .
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I'm in the market for one of these and I'm trying to be patient and wait for the Dell and Lenovo before dusting off the wallet!
I borrowed a friend's Eee 900 (Linux) last night and whilst web surfing was fine, it wasn't able to cope with the BBC iPlayer. Video was poor quality and choppy and the radio stations wouldn't play at all!
Does the 901 fare better with it's atom chipset, or is video a step too far?
Other sites are reporting that the feature to copy recorded programs to PSP won't be included - although remote streaming to PSP will.
Shame really, this was the feature that really set it apart from dedicated PVRs.
On the green thing - if you really care that much, stop heating your house, cooking your food and taking hot baths/showers. That's where the real energy demand is coming from, not your PS3.
Just like with the music industry, I think buying Nintendo games legally is less convenient than the illegal download and store on a single cartridge method the R4 offers.
I'm hoping the next DS gives us the option to buy online and download to flash memory direct to the device from any given Wifi hotspot!
I'm a gadget freak who always has a book on the go, so I'm torn!
I'd love to have one for the tech, but I'd never give up the pleasure of reading a 'proper' book!
Also, my first mp3 player was 40GB and had hundreds of albums on it, but all I ever use is my 1GB Shuffle with only my current fav songs on, so I definitely don't need a reader that can hold hundreds of books!
I really need to grow out of buying every gadget going!
Avoid the GWizz, it doesn't come up to crash safety standards and is only allowed on UK roads as they somehow managed to get it classifed differently to other cars. I think it might be in the same class as quad bikes!
A death trap is one way of lowering one's carbon footprint though I guess!
There is an all Electric Smart car on the way which looks like good fun for the commute, but I don't think it's going to hit the UK market this year.
The HD pictures on these services are so heavily compressed that unless barely anything is happening on screen, they don't come close to the quality of that BluRay player PS3 owners have paid for!
LoveFilm et al rent out BDs for the same price as DVD and IMHO represent much better value. I know Sony haven't announced prices yet, but it won't be cheap.
The employee whose first thought was 'pornographic' when presented with that picture needs to take themselves and their computer down to the nearest Police Station and hand themselves in, as it's obvious they're not well!
Paris - Cos she gets to have her porno cake and eat it!
Given that a lot of ipod docks are very stylish, this looks like a nasty afterthought by comparison.
Also, given that people change their Mp3 players much more regularly than their TVs, existing iPod owners may quickly find the dock redundant because Apple have changed the shape or because Apple have fallen out of favour and suddenly Alba have made a surprise comeback!
Who wants to listen to music through crappy LCD telly speakers anyway???
My DAB radio only picks up Radio 1 (I had it before recently moving house). So improving the coverage would be good for starters. FM works beautifully.
I suspect that by 2020 everyone will have gone to internet radio (in whatever form it is by then) as the current crop of Wifi radios are great and can't be far from appealing to the masses! (Rather than just gadget freaks like me!)
I got mine free with a Bravia TV in the January sales (Sonnex Guildford).
Granted, the price of the telly has dropped in retail value by more than £300 now, but it was a good deal at the time!
Despite being a gamer, I've yet to buy a game for it, so not such a good deal for Sony.
I bought a laptop from Dell once where there were 4 USB ports, two on the back and two on the side. All were advertised as USB2.0 but the side ones appeared to run much slower than the back!
Turned out that they were set in the BIOS to run at USB1 speed, I think as a power saving measure.
Anyway, perhaps worth scanning through your USB settings in the BIOS?
I don't care about the cost of the players any more, both formats can be had for a couple of hundred, which is pretty affordable.
But when a DVD can be had for £5 that is still £18+ on an HD format, I'm pretty sure which format will remain 'mainstream' for the foreseeable . . . DVD!
Second (random) point. How many people like a few beers or glasses of wine when watching a film?
Then the advantages of HD are probably lost on you! ;-)
I'm not taking sides on this - but I expect all the manufacturers of HD-DVD or BD want machines available under £200, as this is seen in the electronics industry as the 'magic number' where mass market adoption of a format is possible.
As far as giving away films is concerned - the Blu-Ray camp are doing this in the states already and I bet similar offers will be forthcoming in the UK too.
I don't care who wins, I just want one format and, more importantly, the cost of the films themselves to come down!