rudyamid on June 27th, 2009 at 7:10 am

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 manageable.  [...]

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rudyamid on August 26th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

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.  [...]

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rudyamid on July 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

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 [...]

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rudyamid on February 8th, 2008 at 8:08 am

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 aggressive [...]

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rudyamid on January 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm

It’s been a long wait. I’ve finally taken the plunge and got myself the Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD Player!  Even though the debate on “HD media format war” has been raging for a while now (both sides are still claiming a stalemate), I have to start choosing a side. For [...]

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