Archive for 2005


Old-Style TV Connectors

TV Connectors. Everybody loves ‘em. Personally, I never even bothered thinking about them. If you’re just interested in what connector gives you the best image quality, skip straight to the Cheat Sheet at the end of the article. But as it turns out, there are benefits to getting the type of connector configured optimally – [...]

Intervideo WinDVD and Media Center 2005: Experience

WinDVD 7, on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. Update Rollup 2 is applied, but everything applies pre-UR2 anyway. Using Australian Free-To-Air Digital TV via an Avermedia A16A. The Good Good de-interlacing, better than PureVideo Excellent image quality Supports HD without any noticeable problems so far Doesn’t stress the CPU too much (Radeon 9550 @ [...]

Operation Flashpoint Elite (Xbox) Review, Part 1

Single Player Well. Operation Flashpoint is a long-standing favourite of mine. I still play the PC version regularly, along with several comrades in arms at work. The game is now five years old, and I’m still playing it. That’s one hell of a game. I approached the Xbox version with some trepidation. Would it be [...]

Think before you act

I just tried Firefox 1.5 and was very disappointed to find that all but two of my installed extensions were compatible. Since I heavily use those extensions, this was not an acceptable situation. So I uninstalled Firefox 1.5. It didn’t rollback to 1.0.7, it just completely removed all of firefox, there weren’t even any icons [...]

Projects.

Projects. Are being warmed. Ohhh, yes. They are being warmed. They might not be boiling yet, but they’re lukewarm, at least. I’d like to talk about them, but… I can’t. They would know. They would find out. They would kill me. tags: Development

LCD TV Hunt Over: Got Irony? I Bought The BRAVIA V-Series.

I know, I whined about the frame rate in store. Funny, isn’t it? Yep, I bought a BRAVIA V-Series 32-incher. Baseline: very happy with it. The 32 inch model is a perfect size replacement for the 68cm 4:3 TV with side speakers – it fits snugly into the same area, but provides a much wider [...]