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CES Keynote

Chris Hammond — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:14:00 GMT

So far I'm not impressed with the CES keynote. I guess I'm just more of a give me something cool now developer instead of a dangle it out in front of me kind of guy.

Update: Directv and MS Windows Media Center Partnership announced.

That is going to rock!

Update 2: HD DVD recorder available in march for $499

update 3: Xbox360 update coming shortly!

update 4: third manufacturering partner announced for the 360.

update 5: external HD DVD announced for xbox 360

Win a free Xbox360!

Chris Hammond — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:44:00 GMT

So, I honestly don't think I have a chance to win this, but I'll give it a shot anyways :) Some of you with more active blogging are more likely to win this than I.

Check out Jake's site, and you could win an Xbox 360! I have one, but I think it'd be swell to have a second one!

Plasma TV and XBox360

Chris Hammond — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:52:00 GMT

So last night I finally replaced my parents old 24" Sony Trinitron TV. It has done me well, though it was getting rather old. I believe, though my folks will disagree, that they had the TV when we lived on Guam, which would mean it's from 1987 or 1988.

So I went with a 50" Plasma from Panasonic. I ended up getting a great deal on a commercial unit the TH-50PHD8UK. It's the same as the TH-50PX50U but it doesn't have a few things. It doesn't have speakers, an HD tuner, or HDMI/DVI inputs. Being that I saved around $1200 by getting this unit I can live without the features, besides the only feature I'd need are the inputs, and I bought a card for HDMI for the unit for ~$120! So, with shipping, the card, and the cost of the unit I still saved probably $1200.

I mounted the TV to the wall last night, and hooked up my new Samsung DVD player with upconversion, I'll post more about that later.

The next thing on my list, after direct TV HD tivo, is an XBOX 360.

I'm excited as heck to see what the 360 will look like on this new monitor, if any of you softies out there have any hookups you be sure to let me know!

More info and pictures will be posted on my blog at http://chrishammond.com/ for now though I'm headed home for lunch to play with the TV!