Archive for the 'Video Games' Category
E3 News for Home Theater
July 14th, 2008The first day of E3 has produced one major home theater announcement - Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360! Basically the Roku box functionality will be recreated in the new Xbox dashboard update coming this fall. This will allow Xbox 360 Gold members who are also Netflix subscribers to instantly stream over 10,000 movie and […]
Batteries that pay for themselves
July 2nd, 2008I have been using the ProMaster rechargeable AA batteries for about 6 months now and I know that they have at least paid for themselves in money saved from having to buy alkaline. Prior to purchasing the XtraPower PRO charger with 4 Ni-MH AA batteries, I was going through 4 AAs a week in my […]
Bioshock - Creepy showcase for your home theater
May 27th, 2008I finally finished Bioshock for the xbox 360 this weekend. Now that I’m a dad I have much less time for video games and this one took me quite a bit longer than my kid-free friends to get through.
The game itself is a multi award-winning masterpiece, and played on an 80-inch HD screen with 5.1 […]
Plasma TVs, video games and burn-in
May 1st, 2008So I have owned a Panasonic TH42PX600 for about 2 years now and love it. I bought it because it was a great deal and I knew that Panasonic Plasma was top notch. I did not consider that I was going to be playing a lot of XBOX360 on it and my […]
Keep the gaming system for gaming
March 11th, 2008I’ve been watching DVDs through my xbox 360 DVD drive for the past year or so until a clear winner came out of the HD DVD / Blu-ray war. Since Toshiba officially threw in the towel a few weeks ago I now know Blu-ray was the winner I had been waiting for.
Some people suggest that […]