December 2009 Blog Posts
I recently bought a copy of Windows 7 and installed it on my Media Center PC. I'm still runing Windows Vista SP1 on my main machine and Windows XP for my game partition. I've been asked by friends whether they should upgrade which made me ponder this post.
Is Windows 7 worth it?
Your choices are Home Premium (upgrade £65, full £100) or Professional (upgrade £140, full £157) or Ultimate (upgrade £150, full £165). Prices are from Amazon UK. A quick check of the edition comparison table makes it clear very few need Ultimate and you only need Professional if you want to...
No, not really.
My conclusion is that if you have a TV that has a diagonal smaller than 46 inches and you watch from about 10 feet away, it really doesn't make a difference to your viewing experience compared to a upscaling DVD player.
This is just based on my experience watching Blu-ray on a 1080p 42 inch upscaling Samsung TV. Yes, you can tell there's some more detail there but my point is you soon forget about it and it doesn't change how you enjoy the film. Without upscaling, I suspect there might be a bigger difference between DVD and Blu-ray...
Up until now I haven't been rating my music tracks but I recently decided I have to do it in order to sync only tracks I really like on my iPod Touch.
I currently play music by selecting genre or album but you wind up listening to songs you don't really like. I definitely don't want to manually maintain playlists. A better approach is automatic playlists which selects tracks on criteria you set. The best criteria for this is genre, year, mood and rating.
So far I've avoided ratings because ratings shouldn't be stored with the track itself. A rating is a users personal...
I've owned an Xbox since it first came out in 2002 but last month I finally bought an Xbox 360 and retired the old console. Yeah, I know that's a long time.
Didn't buy a Wii as I'm not impressed with the graphics and the kinds of games on it. Fine for kids but I want to play too. I like the PS/3 and some of the exclusive games on it but I think it's too expensive for now. With the Xbox 360, the bundle price has fallen below £200 (Amazon). There's lots of cheap games around. The high def graphics look fab...