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12/23/2011 6:44 pm
Learned many differences, at last:
Wii is cheap. I just bought the Wii Super Mario Bundle for $119 (normally $149-ish). But the reason is that it is old technology and will be upgraded to WiiU in 1-2 years times. The picture quality is the old DVD quality 480 x 720. It does have a Netflix app and has improved hardware to resist wear-out.
Both xBox and PS3 are 1080 x 1900. PS3 can play Blu Ray and xBox can play the defunct HD format. Just saw a PS3 bundle for $249, but usually it and xBox are around $300.
12/02/2011 2:55 pm
artie_fufkin wrote:
"I might even shell out for Hi-Def cable."
I can't watch sports in regular definition anymore. Especially hockey. I don't know how the hell I ever saw the puck in regular def.FSN better have all the game in HD next year. If they can do it for half then they can do it for all.
Why would FSN only broadcast half the games in HD?
Good fucking question.
12/02/2011 9:52 am
"I might even shell out for Hi-Def cable."
I can't watch sports in regular definition anymore. Especially hockey. I don't know how the hell I ever saw the puck in regular def.FSN better have all the game in HD next year. If they can do it for half then they can do it for all.
Why would FSN only broadcast half the games in HD?
12/01/2011 9:37 pm
"I might even shell out for Hi-Def cable."
I can't watch sports in regular definition anymore. Especially hockey. I don't know how the hell I ever saw the puck in regular def.
FSN better have all the game in HD next year. If they can do it for half then they can do it for all.
12/01/2011 3:40 pm
"I might even shell out for Hi-Def cable."
I can't watch sports in regular definition anymore. Especially hockey. I don't know how the hell I ever saw the puck in regular def.
12/01/2011 3:31 pm
In a follow-up:
One big difference between the competing system is price. There's a Mario Bros Wii for under $150, but xBox and Playstation seem to be near $300 each.
Oh, and Hi-Def on the Blu-Ray is wonderful! I might even shell out for Hi-Def cable.
11/25/2011 11:28 am
Here's a Black Friday shopping guide for buying TV's. I can't say I agree with it. It says don't pay for features like 1080 vs. 720, or 120 Hz vs. 60 Hz.
Also, check out the THX size guide the repost:
32 inch class TV = 3.5-5 feet away
42 inch class TV = 4-6 feet away
50 inch class TV = 5-7.5 feet away
60 inch class TV = 6-9 feet away
11/23/2011 12:32 pm
So, we watched our first Blu-Ray movie on the new 46" 1080p TV, and OMFG, . . . as the French knight once said, "it's very nice".
11/15/2011 11:41 pm
And here's an interesting follow up, and interview with Winters and teammate Bruce Douglas from this past February:
11/15/2011 11:37 pm
And Ephrem it is. Credit the guy who graduated, over the guy who failed out after one semester, to get it correct:
11/15/2011 9:52 am
"Ephraim (sp?) and his roommate Reggie Woodward were on my floor at Scott Hall."
The only Accidental Brush with Athletic Greatness I had at ASU was when 7-foot tall Alton Lister knocked me down in the cafeteria. Neither one of us was looking where we were going, and there were profuse apologies all around, but I remember being very disappointed that my Enchilada Special ended up on the floor.
11/15/2011 9:49 am
"Winters gained his college eligibility and eventual basketball immortality by correctly naming 10 of them."
NINTCMAD!
Which, of course, begets the question: Which two did he miss?
11/14/2011 6:56 pm
Winters gained his college eligibility and eventual basketball immortality by correctly naming 10 of them.
LOL!
Ephraim (sp?) and his roommate Reggie Woodward were on my floor at Scott Hall. I was on the short hall, in the room directly over the walkway (which made the floor cold as shit). Ephraim and Reggie were on the long hall just past the bathroom. Reggie was quite talkative . . . he talked like he played, actually: lots of talking, but not very productive talking. He wasn't quite sure if he'd play for the Illini for four years, or if he'd go pro sooner. Ephraim probably said no more than two words the whole semester.
But it is a fact that Ephraim was heavily recruited, and my brother, who graduated from U of I, was dumbstruck when he heard that Ephraim was on my floor. Big bragging, then and now! (grin)
11/04/2011 8:49 am
1982: failed out of U of I as D1 DROP, with a 0.6 GPA. (but had season tickets for illini football and was at all the same games as Windy . . . saw the ref drop dead in front of me.)
1989-1991: returned to school as a JC transfer at UCLA (after having done a John Cusack like stint at an Venica, CA used record store). super focused. missed magna cum laude by 0.00something and a credit hour or two . . . didn't care or even notice until it was too late. too focused. never went to a single sporting event . . . never even considered it. never set foot in pauley pavilion, never considered it. walked by it now and then, but i was a 'north campus' guy and had little business down on that end of campus except to go to the book store or the occasional walk to westwood village (wrong side of Janss Steps, too).
Amazing what happens when you get a second chance.
After arm issues made it no longer possible for me to play baseball, I tried out for our school's basketball team ('basketball' being a term open to interpretation, since we probably won a total of nine games in the four years I was there).
Most of my motivation was to get my roommate to try out for the team. He was (and still is) an excellent point guard, but never did anything on his own. He would have made the team if one of the only two players on the team who was decent wasn't already the starting point guard. I lasted about four days before I got cut. He was the last cut. I wasn't surprised I didn't make it, but my roommate was pretty upset. In front of about half our fraternity, I tried to rationalize "Hey, it'll give me more time to study. I've got a tough senior seminar next semester, and I'm probably going to spend every other waking hour at the school paper." By the reaction, you would have thought I'd suggested we ought to switch to light beer.
11/04/2011 12:11 am
1982: failed out of U of I as D1 DROP, with a 0.6 GPA. (but had season tickets for illini football and was at all the same games as Windy . . . saw the ref drop dead in front of me.)
1989-1991: returned to school as a JC transfer at UCLA (after having done a John Cusack like stint at an Venica, CA used record store). super focused. missed magna cum laude by 0.00something and a credit hour or two . . . didn't care or even notice until it was too late. too focused. never went to a single sporting event . . . never even considered it. never set foot in pauley pavilion, never considered it. walked by it now and then, but i was a 'north campus' guy and had little business down on that end of campus except to go to the book store or the occasional walk to westwood village (wrong side of Janss Steps, too).