I upgraded from my last little box to a new monster of a thing (that I’m really going to have to work out how to cool more quietly). This involved going from a P4 3.2 HT socket 478 to an Athlon64 3500+, probably pre-Venice core, and an Nvidia 6600 PCIe from a Radeon 9550. Everything [...]

SpongBo has written a number of posts about his search for the ultimate LCD TV. He finally bought the Sony Bravia. Good for him. He tells me that he enjoys his new TV. I have news that will end all that. At CES 2006, Toshiba unveiled working prototypes of their new SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) [...]

Like Katamari Damacy. Only with Windows.

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Well, I got to check out one of the V-series (with WEGA or VVEGA or whatever the hell it’s meant to be) Sony BRAVIA TVs in JB today, and I’d have to say: I’m quite disappointed. Whatever VVVEGA image processing it’s doing seems to slow it down, both in terms of when the picture is [...]