NBS, Xbox 360, Bit Reviews, Gamecube on HD.. Again.

Ξ August 13th, 2006 | → | ∇ |

Ok, so I was told that cubing on HD should only be attempted with a decent upscaler. I suppose it’s something everyone should invest in if watching DVDs in HD anyway but it’s not as if those things are common, or cheap.

I also bought an Xbox 360. Silly idea since I’m strapped for cash for car/travel/life but I can’t resist a bargain. £260 for the Premium kit + 2 wireless controllers + VGA cable and 5 games = ka-ching! I was going to buy one eventually anyway, but was gonna hold out ’til December to see if MS bundled in a HDDVD drive that brought the prices down, but with Dead Rising coming out soon, I just can’t hold off any longer. I also feel an overwhelming urge to play PGR3.

NBS is up to episode 12 now, with 13 just been recorded. Again, stupid Powergramo refused to record the last 30 minutes of the 90 minute cast which pissed me off no end. I’m trying to sort out some sort of mixer system to record into audition directly but I need 2 PCs, a splitter and a mixer to output my mic into both recording and skype as well as record & hear the input from other peeps.

Recently reviewed a Shuttle SN27P2. Nice unit, pretty looking shame it’s AM2 though. That’s like the new “dirty word” it seems, taken over from the letter P and number four. I couldn’t live with an SFF having owned a YY cube for so long, you get used to the size and using it as another table. It’s not LAN party-able though, but, who cares.

I’ve also been helping Brett (Thomas) write his raytracing column for Bit, which should be interesting when it goes live. It’s not quite transformed itself into a transcript of our discussions on the topic but he keeps trying to write something paragraph and Im constantly editing bits with my input! Haha. He’ll never get it out at this rate.