Okay, I've Finally Said Goodbye To Cable...Need Some Advice...

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

I considered that... I could trade in my old one for a new one...or towards a PS3...Geez, I never thought of that! Oh btw I will never use my old Xbox again... RROD 3 times in less than 2 months of light use. Besides, I gave away the steering wheel, controllers, games, WiFi adapter, HDD... So it would be more trouble than it's worth. Anyway, that would eliminate the possibility of us playing games together. I think Gamestop would give me about $20 for it... It's still in the box from Microsoft.

That's a good suggestion though! Thanks.

I have had the same one forever. Microsoft just hates you.

[Amorok]

Media Center Computer FTW. Build a cheap tower, hook it up to your flatscreen, wireless keyboard and mouse and your set. All you need to do is run your other stuff through the TV itself unless you're short HDMI inputs, then you can get a switchbox.

[tallywacker]

Originally Posted by Trip

I have had the same one forever. Microsoft just hates you.

Same here. I have a release model. It went to Iraq with me as well and somehow still works.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Amorok

Media Center Computer FTW. Build a cheap tower, hook it up to your flatscreen, wireless keyboard and mouse and your set. All you need to do is run your other stuff through the TV itself unless you're short HDMI inputs, then you can get a switchbox.

Yea, I've considered that. We build towers for security systems all the time... I'd probably spend $3-400 though... More than a PS3.

[tallywacker]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Yea, I've considered that. We build towers for security systems all the time... I'd probably spend $3-400 though... More than a PS3.

PS3 is a good buy, I just wish they had an online gaming system that was anything close to Xbox live. I use my PS3 as a predominately blue-ray player.
Does it annoy anyone else that on some games it takes nearly an hour to start playing because it wants to load a large amount of the game on your harddrive?

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Yea, I've considered that. We build towers for security systems all the time... I'd probably spend $3-400 though... More than a PS3.

Yeah, but you can do all kinds of crap with this route and keep building your options. I like mine better than my 360. I took my old tower when I bought the iMac and did this. It's definitely worth the money. Slap a blu ray player and a tuner card on it (PVR on your free basic) and make it a share drive for your laptops and you can't beat that.

[OneSickPsycho]

Originally Posted by Amorok

Media Center Computer FTW. Build a cheap tower, hook it up to your flatscreen, wireless keyboard and mouse and your set. All you need to do is run your other stuff through the TV itself unless you're short HDMI inputs, then you can get a switchbox.

I'm gay on this idea... I've been running an HTPC for years, won't ever live without one. I have about 5TB of storage with tons of TV, movies, pr0n, etc... If you aren't looking to have a bunch of shit on it and play games and the like, you can build a budget box for about the same as another PS3 and have way more flexibility...

Blue Ray player? For what? Movies in 720 and 1080p are all over the internet...

[Dave]

Originally Posted by tallywacker

PS3 is a good buy, I just wish they had an online gaming system that was anything close to Xbox live. I use my PS3 as a predominately blue-ray player.
Does it annoy anyone else that on some games it takes nearly an hour to start playing because it wants to load a large amount of the game on your harddrive?

Seems pretty rare to me, only happened with mgs4 and gt5

[Dave]

Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

I'm gay on this idea... I've been running an HTPC for years, won't ever live without one. I have about 5TB of storage with tons of TV, movies, pr0n, etc... If you aren't looking to have a bunch of shit on it and play games and the like, you can build a budget box for about the same as another PS3 and have way more flexibility...

Blue Ray player? For what? Movies in 720 and 1080p are all over the internet...

He's already got a kickass laptop, all he needs is a long hdmi/vga cable + audio and he's got the functionality of the dedicated tower for free. Id take the second ps3 route and enjoy gaming with the sig other

Btw, any video file that's in a ps3 compatible format gets played on my ps3. Sony's video player options DEMOLISH vlc and wmp11

[tallywacker]

Originally Posted by Dave

Seems pretty rare to me, only happened with mgs4 and gt5

Assassins creed as well. Whats funny is the only games I have for PS3 is MGS4, GT5, Killzone 2, and Assassins Creed. So 3/4 of my library required me to wait an hour to play the game initially.