Cheap games
My advice is as always
Buy a cheap PS2 and find thousands of cheap S/H games.
Posts by MJI
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LG 55LM960V 55in Smart TV
Tuesday 3rd July 2012 15:17 GMT 
Re: Question
TV head to head
Saw this with 4 Sony TVs a little while I before I bought our most recent one.
All 46"
KDL46D/S/W/X4000 AFAIR
The two cheaper ones looked a lot worse than the two more expensive ones.
One was cheap
One was cheap panel and better electronics
Next was better panel
Next was nicer styling wih same panel
TV for chavs
TV for chavs with more money
TV for AV enthusiasts/gamers
TV for the style consious
I THINK the prices were from high hundreds to about 1.5k
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Thursday 28th June 2012 15:36 GMT
New TVs
Bought a 32" wide flat screen digital CRT when the 25" cylinder tube one started to go. Bought a 46" LCD when the first generation digital TV started to get dim.
Handy, got one for the widescreen and digital start and the next for HD broadcasts.
Nearly 50 and I have owned 5 TVs, and one of those is also a computer monitor.
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Monday 25th June 2012 11:12 GMT
Re: Though it's true that current TVs are crap
My last TV had 3 or 4 software updates and a hardware update to support Ondigital CAMs.
Current TV has an auto update fascility - no idea if it has triggered, all our PVRs auto update, but one is not DSO compliant and refuse to fix it (only software as well they reckon) - welcome to my shitlist Pace
No one watches TV, Nielsen, and you know it
Monday 25th June 2012 11:08 GMT
I FF past them
But if I see a good one I will stop and watch, which would be very rarely.
My wife was skipping them (ITV or C4) so I grabbed the remote and went back and had a look, well worth it - found the Uncharted 3 advert, reminded of this because during an episode of The Tube there were advertisements for UC3 in the background. I find FF easier than skipping a few seconds of 32x then stop on end of programme sponsor rubbish.
Well made ads are good to watch most are total rubbish.
Also there are anti adverts, too loud, annoying opera singers cause boycots. Whereas my boss was sent a toy Meerkat (real ones stink!).
There used to be some clever ads - the aforementioned Guiness add (I don't like the drink but tried it), the Ridley Scott bread advert, the beer selling ice cream van.
For terrible ads watch some of the 40n Freesat channels, there are some right stinkers even at 64x, but the ones on the other programme I watch are targeted and not as bad. OK so I don't mind adverts from where we got our caravan from but those horrid CD collections or stupid pillows WHY? I just want to see new games not horrid CD collections.
Lollipop Chainsaw
Brits spent £334 each year on games
Thursday 21st June 2012 15:58 GMT
Too many hobbies
Well try having lots of hobbies.
Video photography - new camera was over £600 for HDV, new software to edit @ £100, new burner to burn discs @ £100
Model railways - total money pit at £50 to £150 a loco, but even coaches are now over £20
Gaming is quite cheap at £37 a game
I could class my car as a hobby!
Thursday 21st June 2012 12:33 GMT
Re: Fixed it for ya
We have a Wii, no intention of a Wii U, children are older, wife can weigh herself with Wii, I can still shoot other players on PS3, last in family survey put Sackboy over Mario as favourite childrens game.
Any money which would have gone to a Wii U can be saved towards a PS4.
Thursday 21st June 2012 12:30 GMT
Re: 16 games?
5 or so last year plus a couple of free ones
That said paid over £30 for 4 of them, day of release for a couple.
At 9p an hour for just me for the last Killzone including DLC.
There were a lot of good games last year so rationed myself, still haven't played Portal 2 yet it sits there waiting - still dealing with Glados on first game so bit embarrassed to start.
But then I played more games than before, Platinumed both Uncharteds before the PSN downtime, completed a few SP games during it, afterwards Platted Infamous (free game), multiplayered Killzone 3, enjoyed Resistance 3 but not the MP, blasted through Rage, Platted Uncharted 3 within a week of buying it.
Since January been concentrating on KZ as I want to hit top rank.
You can fill a year with not many games and still have a lot of fun. My backlog is big enough and one of my sons has just bought Skyrim and says I can play that.
As to MY game of year - too dificult for me to choose, 3 stand out for different reasons. Uncharted 3 was fantastic, Resistance 3 has a brilliant atmosphere, and Killzone 3 multiplayer is great fun and motion control done right, I laughed out loud when getting a 5 killstreak with a sniper rifle while eating a lolly (holding it in shooting hand, with finger wrapped around T)
last year was a great gaming year, and look how much entertainment can come from one shiny disc, especially when there are more than one person to play, online coop is fun with UC3, my daughter even plays it - but gets annoyed if not Elena, both boys play KZ3 online as well. Still can't work out why a console gets more use playing films & streaming than gaming, ours is 90% 5% 5% with 90% at a low guess, BBC, ITV, 4OD players and Blu ray both around 5%.
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Tuesday 12th June 2012 10:51 GMT
You watch Adverts?
I don't, I pay about £140 though, and may be one programme a day I want to watch.
When you read all of these posts you think - at least we have the BBC. There may be a load of crud, but there still is the odd gem.
We have some fantastic documentries, nature (David Attenborough) programmes, sitcoms (recently Not Going Out), reasonable news, just need to look past Deadenders.
Other sides - PVRs make short shrift of adverts.
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