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LCD vs Plasma was one of the most common questions I received while working at Circuit City. It’s probably the first thing we explained to all the rookies. The problem with this was who was telling the person the differences. Everyone is bias to one or the other deep down inside, even myself. Hopefully by […]

I’m addicted to video games. They are my Anti-Depressant. Whenever I want to relax or take a complete exist from the real world and get my mind off of things games fulfill me.
As a college student I’ve put in thousands of hours in games and majority of those hours are in MMOs. World of Warcraft […]

This is something I’ve wanted to put together for awhile now. This might scare you at first but keep in mind this is just to educate you on some of the problems out there. It doesn’t mean that you will have any of these problems when you get home. Consider this more of a check […]

The highly highly anticipated new LED Backlight LCD from Samsung is finally trickling into users hands. Samsung has a lot to live up too and lots of competition coming out soon from Sony in the XBR 8.
Things we’ve heard so far:
Picture quality is AMAZING.
Black is BLACK!
Details in black are living up to expectations
Black is so […]

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The Sony 2008 LCD TV line up is quite confusing and has tons of models. I’ve put this chart together to help people understand the differences between each line. Right now as of 7/30/2008 we don’t know everything about all the XBR lines. With time I’ll be updating this chart and fixing […]

This video will help you understand what RSS and those funny little icons (chicklets) mean. After the video don’t forget to add me to your subscriptions -=)

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Samsung 2008 LCD TV differences explained in a chart. I plan on adding how many bits the panel and processor are for each model. If you want to comment with the correct bits for each model, I will add them. If you have any suggestion or corrections that need to be […]

Yesterday we went to The Museum of Discovery & Science. Nikki found out that they had a frog exhibit. She was excited the whole week jumping up and down about the frogs. As a kid I had been to the museum a bunch of times and had fond memories. I agreed and thought it’d be […]

Yesterday Nikki and I finally got to get our first taste of blood in UT3 together. We finally got a hold of a copy of UT3 on Xbox 360. We own UT3 on the PS3 and adore it but stop playing it once we realized it had no split screen. Nikki totally loves the extreme […]

Blu-Ray Player Comparison
You could call this the affordable blu ray player comparison
The Players:
Insignia NS-BDDVD Blu-Ray
Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-Ray
Sony Playstation 3 Blu-Ray
Sharp BD-HP20U Blu-Ray
Panasonic DMP-BD30K Blu-Ray
Sony BDP-S300 Blu-Ray
Phillips BDP7200 Blu-Ray
The Categories:
Profile
Insignia: 1.1 profile
Samsung: 1.1, 2.0 profile coming via firmware upgrade
Playstation 3: 2.0 profile via system upgrades
Sharp: 1.0 profile
Panasonic: 1.1 profile
Sony 300: 1.0 profile
Phillips: 1.1 profile
Whats the […]