Thursday, 11 June 2009

I can see cleaaarly now its in HD!

From black and white TV to colour, to technicolour, to big screen, to 60hz, to 100hz to widescreen, to LCD to Plasma the TV often has a fancy word attached that just makes it 2 million times better than the version you've got in your living room. Not any more though; I am now a proud owner of 32" of HD Ready TV, the old telly not being at all ready for the world of High definition made the use of my PS3 somewhat limited, but now? Phhhooooooaaaarrrr!!
I went for a somewhat cheapy model, however it really is a world of difference, viewing webpages on it and reading text in games is beautiful, basically like a PC screen. Today is my day off and I plan to race a Ferrari F430 round Monza and enjoy the crisp HD details of my surrounding Ferrari racers.
BBC iPlayer works a charm through the PS3 now as well, it all just fits on screen without any fiddling, just as god intended. The other day I was even lucky enough to have a pinch more internet than usual from BT and managed to stream iPlayer in HD. Possibly the best part of the telly though is the connectivity, every other TV I've used on a regular basis always falls short on the SCART front, but this TV has a plethora of different sockets, 5 HDMI slots, 3 SCART, 1 S-Video and 1 VGA, 1 Ariel and Freeview built in.
Got a hell of a weekend coming up next, Transformers 2 on friday night, paintballing stag thing on saturday, stag do saturday night, British grand prix - the last at Silverstone on sunday, followed up by a return of Top Gear to BBC2!!! Gran Turismo 5 preview is out, and on Wikipedia it says the Top Gear test track is going to be on it, can't wait for GT5, the preview looks superb.


3 comments:

Jon said...

Sounds like you have got a pretty good weekend ahead of you, have fun!

Greg said...

I didnt know top gear was back, this makes me extremely happy. Hope you have a good weekend!!!

Puentae said...

Its not this weekend but next, can't wait! James 'I've done it properly' May is a hero