The "New Toys" Thread

[der_jackal]

new toy rollup!

Sharp LC-52D92U LCD w/ Salamader Synergy Cabinet!

 

[Andrew911tt]

nice

 

[mautzel]

On order (well everything except the lens, I already have that! )

Hope to get used to it by EDC Round 1 on 6-8th April

- it still needs Compact Flash cards?

 

[Shadowness]

- it still needs Compact Flash cards?

Yeh, wot else is it supposed to use?

 

[mautzel]

I always thought that the D200 was already running on SD-Cards - doesn't matter in the end anyway.

 

[stuntfreak]

I got myself a G25, and it is great. will post a picture later.

 

[GTV V6]

I have to know what the write speed is on that thing.

The discs have the information on them when they come out of the line, they are not written later. One DVD every 2.1 seconds.

 

[BerserkerCatSplat]

I always thought that the D200 was already running on SD-Cards - doesn't matter in the end anyway.

Pros like CF cards because all the current pro bodies use them. I suspect the next round of pro bodies will be SD + CF.

 

[Davetouch]

Logitech G25 (to go with my newly acquired PS3)

:lol:

I've just realised how much I've spent in the past month. I had ?800. Spent ?160 on an iPod. ?425 on a PS3. And now ?160 on this. ?745 in one month! Well, I suppose its gotta go somewhere, may as well as be technology. I love it.

 

[Buba]

You gotta help out the economy, thats what I'm always saying...

 

[Davetouch]

^:lol::lol::lol:

Doing my bit for...er...world hunger!

 

[Blayde]

That is one great kit, how and where do you place the shifter, is it flat bottomed?

 

[Jacobfox]

And what games do you use it on? Are you using it for PS2 racers, b/c I don't know of any decent PS3 racers (we all know motorstorm doesn't count).

 

[hokiethang]

New toy:

A Poweredge 1950 with Quad Core Xeon, and 8GB of RAM. To be colocated for my own plaything .

I also got a new rifle that I don't have pictures on the internet of just yet. It's a Saiga .308 for those who are interested.

 

[anTo]

that is one crazy comp

 

[watto]

My new toy:
"The Complete Seed"
http://img485.imageshack.**/img485/9784/b185o10495ub6.jpg
hahaha, just realised that the bag isn't exactly a technological item. However, there is a new toy that's about 1 week old that I've neglected to mention.
A 250GB LaCie external hard drive. Top Gear started taking up too much room and now I have room for Futurama!
http://img248.imageshack.**/img248/3287/hdporschedesktopusb4vi5.jpg
http://img440.imageshack.**/img440/4444/hdporschedesktopfw3zp7.jpg

 

[fbc]

Not so much a new toy, more a new use for a neglected, sitting-in-a-corner toy. Finally got around to getting XboxMediaCenter loaded up on the Xbox (yeah I know it's been around for a long time). I'm a very happy boy

http://img233.imageshack.**/img233/9729/screenshot014fx9.jpg

http://img53.imageshack.**/img53/7702/screenshot015tb8.jpg

http://img86.imageshack.**/img86/8502/screenshot016ko4.jpg

http://img86.imageshack.**/img86/5909/screenshot017kb8.jpg

TV show info, episode guides, Movie plot, cast, directors, etc is all downloaded from the net. It's a sweet thing.

Now I just need to get up in the roof and run the network cable...

 

[watto]

^So, do you move that from your computer onto the XBox or does it d/l straight to the machine?? Bad sentence, the movies/tv show etc etc I mean.

Does this also act as a sort of digital recorder for tv shows so you can watch them on tv thru the XBox later on??

 

[Matt2000]

yeah i have never seen that before either. will it work with a non-media centre PC?

 

[fbc]

^So, do you move that from your computer onto the XBox or does it d/l straight to the machine?? Bad sentence, the movies/tv show etc etc I mean.

Either way works - you can FTP the files to your Xbox (but you'd need to upgrade the hdd - it's a whopping 10gig), or access a network share on a pc (which is how mine is). Those movies are a mix of xvid rips (Eddie Murphy: Raw), & full ISOs I ripped off the DVDs - you basically tell it what the content is and then grabs the info from the net (including things like Genre, Cast, Director, Year etc) and puts in into the Library. It does the same thing with the TV shows & music, so you can browse through your Libraries by all those categories.

The only 'manual' thing I've done is downloaded those icons for the TV shows myself.

Does this also act as a sort of digital recorder for tv shows so you can watch them on tv thru the XBox later on??

Not quite - the Xbox can't do that (not that I'm aware of anyway - it doesn't have any inputs) - but my next step is to get a digital TV card for the TV, so record on the pc and play back through the Xbox.

yeah i have never seen that before either. will it work with a non-media centre PC?

My pc's running XP Home - all you need is a share on the pc and away you go.

The only requirement is to have the Xbox modded (the guys who did mine also put on a Super Nintendo emulator with a gazillion games - I was playing Super Mario Kart earlier )

It really is an awesome bit of kit - it'll play every format you can throw it at (H264 does cause it some problems - but that's a limitation of the Xbox's CPU - it's not quite grunty enough - but I believe H264 playback is constantly being improved), and the development work on it is continuous. As a bonus - buy the AV Component leads and the Xbox becomes a HD machine - upscaling everything. It's not grunty enough to handle native HD - I tried to play a 1Gb full 720p rip of Lost, but it stuttered badly, but the 700mb 960 * 528 rip played sweetly.