John-Michael Del Valle’s Blog

Last night I spent some time on Skype with my designer friend, Vince. We’ve been working on figuring out problems and brainstorming ideas together. He found this software to make photo albums which is real interactive. Since I got him to install WordPress he wanted to see if we could use this software and post […]

TV Buying Guide
part 3
The main things you will be seeing on the tags are the contrast ratio. In simple terms contrast ratio is the differences of black and whites on the screen. The larger the contrast ratio the better the set is. Any television with around 4,000:1 is good enough. The highest contrast ratio […]

Start off with a little story before I get into this write up. You can skip this completely but think it might be helpful. Back when I was in grade school and it was Christmas break during 8th grade. I came up with this idea that I wanted to put a home theater system in […]

Nikki has come up with the idea for Beer Thursdays. It helps make the week-end seem much longer. We cleaned up the place up a bit and invited some people over. Since we are a little out of the way and on such short notice. Gomez and Zuli were the only guest. We ordered some […]

TV Buying Guide
part 2
Projection televisions are the next up. There are two types of projections on the market: Rear projection and front projection. Rear refers to those regular looking televisions with backs to them (they keep getting thinner and thinner with time). Front projections are the small boxes behind you which produce large images. The […]

TV Buying Guide
part 1
So you’ve decided you want to upgrade your living room or bed room television! It’s a long and detail extensive process if you haven’t kept up to date with technology in the past years. Before it was as simple as picking which brand you would buy and how big. Now we have […]

I believe the day Demonoid went down I was bummed out for a couple days. It had become a site I visited daily and always found what I was looking for. Honestly my ISP must of been cheering that day. I remember checking the site every few days hoping it would come back up some […]

Yesterday was my day off from work. This means I spent some serious time trying to update this site as much as I could. Fortunately Wordpress is a breeze but its the plug-ins that take some time trying to master. Some work with great ease and well other just fail.
All in all I felt that […]

I’ve seen so many blogs post about the new firmware upgrade coming to the Playstation 3 which adds DTS-MA support not explain what this means. Hopefully I’ll make this a clear as possible for people who don’t know much about audio.
There are two different ways the PS3 sends audio: Bitstream or PCM.
There are two main […]

While at work today going through all sorts of blogs I come across news that Blockbuster has sent an offer to Circuit City. Ever since I’ve left Circuit City it has been a relief to me. The way the stock has been falling and new structure of company would always have me worrying if I’d […]