Archive for March, 2009
DVR by the numbers: How much does owning a DVR really cost?
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Gadgets, Misc.
during the process of sorting-out if I’m going to keep TiVo or ditch it for Moxi, or even a Vista CableCard Home Theater PC, I ran some numbers and came to some interesting conclusions. I compared the overall cost of ownership of different digital cable-ready HD DVRs, including a TiVo HD with and without expanded storage and 3rd party upgrades, the TiVo XL HD, the newly launched Moxi DVR with and without expanded storage, the average cost of CableCard equipped HTPCs, and a service provider rental DVR. The total cost of ownership was figured at 1, 2, 3 and 5 years, with both prepaid and monthly service plans calculated. I also took a look at multi-room DVR solutions.
Random thoughts about Street Fighter IV (not exactly a review)
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
Street Fighter IV is a lot of fun, and feels like a perfect evolution from Street Fighter II, which is perfect for me since I never got into the Alpha games or SF III.
While online matches are lag free more often than not, the rest of the online mode is broken. The lobby system is [...]
I, Robot, Tecate, and the art of product placement
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Movies, Rants
Let’s get this out of the way: the film version of I, Robot with Will Smith is a terrible, terrible movie. It actually serves as an example of everything that can be wrong with a movie: straying too far from the original source material, lazy and cliched writing, terrible acting, poor special effects, and [...]