As part of my efforts to curb excessive shopping, I have this rule to give myself 1 week to think about buying non-necessity stuff. Especially in electronics. I also do most of my shopping from Amazon, so I tend to browse and put things in cart – but not check them out. I come back [...]
I hate cables. For years, I’ve been struggling with managing cables at the back of my computers. I’m a non-Mac (PC) dude, so I always have a bunch of unsightly cables. In fact, all of my electronics suffer from messy cables madness. From the pictures below, I’ve been trying to get keep them neat and [...]
I have been collecting DVD movies since 1997 when the format first came out. I was one of those early adopters who bought a US$450 DVD player and discs that cost $21 each. The difference in video/audio quality, compared to VHS and Laserdisc, was very noticeable. It wasn’t a difficult choice to take the plunge. [...]
As a standards and HD-DVD fan, I’m always in a look out to what the DVD Forum is doing to recover from the loss of the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle. Toshiba, being the main player in the HD-DVD format, has said they’ll venture into the movie download arena. Earlier this week they had unveiled their [...]
We went to Red Robins last wednesday. It was a warm sunny day when we talked about: The Toshiba HD-A3 is now down to $129 at Amazon. Pretty good deal for anyone who wants to buy an great 1080p upconverting DVD player with HD capabilities. Why Toshiba failed to market HD-DVD properly. They’re not as [...]
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