Recent Posts Tagged With 'electronics'

• Wrangling Cables

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 09:10 in electronics, PC, geek, cables

  I hate cables.  For years, I’ve been struggling with managing cables at the back of my computers.  I’m a non-Mac (PC) dude, so I always have a bunch of unsightly cables.  In fact, all of my electronics suffer from messy cables madness....

• DVDs and Me

  Posted on Tuesday August 26th, 2008 at 16:30 in DVD, electronics, stuff, hd-dvd, motion picture

  I have been collecting DVD movies since 1997 when the format first came out.  I was one of those early adopters who bought a US$450 DVD player and discs that cost $21 each.  The difference in video/audio quality, compared to VHS and Laserdisc, was ...

• Toshiba DVD Download DL

  Posted on Friday July 4th, 2008 at 14:54 in electronics, stuff, hd-dvd, standard, motion picture

  As a standards and HD-DVD fan, I’m always in a look out to what the DVD Forum is doing to recover from the loss of the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle.  Toshiba, being the main player in the HD-DVD format, has said they’ll venture into the mov...

• Lunch Bits - Edition 11

  Posted on Friday February 8th, 2008 at 10:08 in electronics, stuff, train, hd-dvd, lunch bits

  We went to Red Robins last wednesday. It was a warm sunny day when we talked about: The Toshiba HD-A3 is now down to $129 at Amazon.  Pretty good deal for anyone who wants to buy an great 1080p upconverting DVD player with HD capabilities. Why Tos...