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747 posts • joined Tuesday 12th May 2009 11:32 GMT

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Citizen Kaned

well, thank fuck for such devices.

i leave my oven on constantly and just pop food in when i want it heating. i never realised i was on a meter and paying for what i use. i thought the spinning disk on my meter was purely for showing off to friends.

now i realise i dont HAVE to waste energy. i have also stopped washing clothes, boiling water for baby bottles and dont have lights on. unfortunately my baby is now sick, we all smell and i have a broken leg from walking in the dark

/sarcasm

how do they think this will save us money?? we know we should use the minimun leccy and gas. we try but they just keep putting prices up when we cut down! less for more eh!

we switch things on when we need to. we wash when we need to. we have low energy lights everywhere and some are led. we also have an eco kettle (strange little device but works well as the mrs kept filling kettle for one drink)

how will a wall meter tell me how much energy one device uses? surely it just tells me how much im spending? we always have various appliances on at any time apart from the night. how does this help us telling us which are costing more (apart fromthe general knowledge that heating burns eleccy at a fair rate)? pointless!

Citizen Kaned

"Justin Bieber Sucks"

well, at least not slander then!

12 months for this is a disgrace.

Citizen Kaned

Re: ISP problems

really? i pay £85 for 60meg BB, top tv package, unlimited phone and sky sports HD.

exaggerate much? :)

i agree its often over used but i do often get my 60meg speed.

Citizen Kaned

Re: 12 months porridge for a FB 'hack'?

yup. he would have got less for burgling someone. which is worse eh??

the courts are so fucked up over here.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Because it's better

many AVRs have airplay on. my Onkyo doesnt but i dont want to be tied to apple anyway so it didnt bother me.

Citizen Kaned

its not a monitor though. its a TV. big difference.

of course the fanboys will be throwing themselves at apple to get a sub-par TV for double the price of the competition.

Citizen Kaned

grabs popcorn....

this could be fun. lets the arguments commence...

Citizen Kaned

Re: "Fancy one of these in your living room?"

can i have the one on the right then? :)

dont tell the wife...

Citizen Kaned

Re: £546 a year for Sky?

i was referring to the TV tax (license) which they want everyone to pay. im not hard up so i pay for virgin and sky sports HD. if i wanted to i could stop using them. i just feel sorry for people on the bread line who are forced to pay £145 for a couple of channels. i actually watch a fair bit of BBC so i dont mind paying the license, plus the mrs always has radio2 on. the BBC do nature programs and comedy better than anyone else so i think i get my moneys worth from them.

Citizen Kaned

Re: £546 a year for Sky?

not everyone has sky. £145 is a lot if you dont earn much. should TV tax really go to the radio? i know loads of people that dont even own a radio. plus with virgin/sky you have hundreds of channels and not a couple. BBC3 and 4 rarely have anything worth watching on and if its half decent it will be on Dave after a month or 2 anyway

i have the top virgin package and sky sports HD channels but as soon as the footy finishes i cancel sky for a couple of months. yes, i know it can be expensive but me and my son love watching football. you only ever saw FA cup and international games when i was younger. no league football was on the TV.

Citizen Kaned

i wonder if....

this new company will pay tax in the UK? :)

Citizen Kaned

shame...

i created my house whilst learning CAD but the 3d element was terrible to use. sketchup was so much simpler and quicker. i designed my house renovation using it.

Citizen Kaned

Re: NOTW & Sun

it still is to people with more than a handful of braincells.

Citizen Kaned

Re: what i dont get...

in shit... meaning in trouble. i hear his lot has been hacking in the USA too. hopefully they wont be as pussified as our lot will be. im sure he still has plenty on them.

Citizen Kaned

what i dont get...

if i commit a crime and break a law,even one i dont know existed, i am still to blame.

yet, he owns several companies with a culture of breaking the law, yet he denies he knows.

i bet fuck all will happen to him. i say stop him trading in this country. close down all his interests and ban him.

isnt he in shit in the USA too?

Citizen Kaned

Re: I'm on their side *ducks*

where do you see your 2nd hand games? i see loads for £10-15.

of course they will not reduce the price. all they will see is a big decline in SP games unless they offer good value for money like fallout games or games you play a lot like Fifa

who will pay £50 for a game that lasts 7 hours and then you are stuck with it.

i also get annoyed at PSN pricing. its always RRP and more expensive than shops where i resell my disk or trade it in.

the EU need to stop this. they poke their noses into enough things, what about consumer rights?!?

Citizen Kaned

Re: Optical Digital...

AV amp or optical splitter is what you need. splitters are dirt cheap.

'surely a player of this price' isnt aimed at people without a full hdmi setup anyway? i have 9 hdmi sockets on my AVR :) and will get superior sound than coax/optical.

Citizen Kaned

Re: FIFA RTWC

i dont want cheating in games though. its bad enough kids think diving is part of the game these days

Citizen Kaned

Re: Hmmmmmm

because my win7 disk will be used for years, as will an office disk. unlike a game that might have a 7 hour SP campaign. 7 hours for £50 isnt that great when im paying for the console, premises, leccy and seating etc.

Citizen Kaned

Re: thats my buying power minimised then

but that screws the people who only play online. the majority of BF players will never play the single player. why should they buy the game then pay to play it too?

unless SP and MP are both different. maybe pay £20 each?!?!

Citizen Kaned

Re: Why

i find this really annoying. its almost like its been deliberately done. surely a device doesnt really know where the data sits. whether its via lan, HDD or some other magical method. it should just read, buffer and play the data.

Citizen Kaned

nothing new. they had issues with the Netherlands team a while ago and couldnt list them.

Shane8 - didnt PES get photo realistic faces? i used to be a massive PES fan but then fifa overtook it and now i rarely play any games due to a 8 month old son.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Indeed it looks great, but will it compete against Sony Playstation 3 at that price?

agreed you could.

i bought a standalone player as it has a better DAC, better picture and its silent. horses for courses i guess. my aging ps3 fat is a noisy bugger.

Citizen Kaned

we use...

sony systems dotted around the house for streaming. they can all do their own thing or can sync up for party mode where 1 device streams to all other devices. very easy to use and we use our phones (iphone and android) to control them from anywhere in the house.

Citizen Kaned

Re: How much???

to be honest its a reasonable price for a quality home projector. ive seen people on AVF spend 3x that.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Motion sensor

i would assume it can be switched off?! if not thats stupid. i watch movies reclined in a big leather sofa and dont move much!

Citizen Kaned

Re: XBMC

only 720p though. no thanks from me.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Nothing on that list...

LBP karting looks fun. seems a biti like sonic racing, which was really fun

Citizen Kaned

isnt....

colonial marines out this year?!?!? :(

Citizen Kaned

what about...

the robostir. my son got one for my wife for mother's day and she loves it. and its only a tenner

Citizen Kaned

as said..

the full BR box set it around £15 and features all theatrical and directors versions.

im redoing my home cinema at the minute and cant wait to watch them as i got them for xmas.

so, vhs, dvd and now BR versions :)

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Citizen Kaned

Re: 4 for £5.50 is considered inexpensive?

our beer is often much stronger than the stuff in the USA though. american beer is often classified as 'fizzy piss' here :)

Citizen Kaned

or that one on the SNES?

i agree it doesnt sound very original to me!

Citizen Kaned

i know 3d isnt new tech but the ability to capture it seems to be coming on in leaps and bounds.

did anyone read the review of some new 3d tech on gizmondo? apparently it is breathtaking and shouldnt be expensive to get into production as its a tech demo at the minute.

basically 2 guys from the movies thought the current tech was shite and did their own thing, which blows the competition away

i have only seen 1 new movie in 3d - avatar and while it looked ok the crappy glasses killed the colour saturation and brightness. it looked far better on blu-ray on my home cinema to be honest.

we need glasses free (out soon if not now) and great viewing angles.

i do think its the future and would love to watch some footy in 3d and play games too. the tech needs to improve but it is doing. remember when everyone said LCD would be crap for TV compared to CRT? and the people that said 5.1 etc would be a novelty?

the fake blurred out FOV shit needs to go. my eyes naturally wander about and i dont like not being able to focus on something because its blurred. they do this with games now too which i find annoying.

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Citizen Kaned

i will watch this

big kevin spacey fan and quinto has something about him that the screen loves.

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Citizen Kaned

drive...

saw this the other night and enjoyed it as it wasnt what i was expecting.

what do people think of the end? me and the wife both thought something different so i would like to hear your views.

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Citizen Kaned

i must admit

im quite looking forward to it. i love a bit of escapism.

i have plenty of dark, deep etc movies but sometimes you want a bit of fantasy/sci fun.

Citizen Kaned
Happy

Re: Best ever?

cool. i never knew about this... a great way to kill some more time at work! :)

Citizen Kaned

Re: Eat this.

haha... like it.

i might just add that at the bottom of our exchange emails, either in the data or white text ;) you know, just for the lulz! :)

Citizen Kaned

Re: Range

but the civilised world uses metric.... apart from road signs ;)

Citizen Kaned

Re: Meh!

airwolf V blue thunder! :)

(although i think airwolf would kick blue's arse)

Citizen Kaned

Re: LCD?

but us AV freaks wont go near one :)

they are going to have to step up with glasses free 3d out soon (if not already) and the likes on panasonic have years of R&D over apple.

Citizen Kaned
Facepalm

Re: Regional accents

ah, my bad. looked like one of those londoners trying a generic northern accent.

facepalm for me then

Citizen Kaned

Re: Regional accents

oh dear... the 'northern' accent done by someone who hasnt been past Watford i guess ;)

Citizen Kaned
FAIL

Re: Reasons for Nintendo not to include graphics at more than 1080p

doh! my bad (fail on my part)

Citizen Kaned

Re: Jail

im a sweary dickhead and he is much worse than me...

i will agree that prison is not maybe the answer as the police whenever i have needed them have been useless cnuts themselves.

someone broke into house - took them 6 weeks to come over and finger print

someone stuffed my car in a car park. right infront of police controlled CCTV cameras - they didnt check it out or even contact me back

the issue is that divvies seem to be able to leave all their contact details when they do stuff like this now.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Slippery slope..

visit here:

https://twitter.com/#/walken4gop

would you really like this type of thing to be OK over here?

i know its a slippery slope and we cant allow mission creep here (i.e. Atheists being arrested for saying bollocks to religious types etc) but i also think that vile people like that need to be stopped from being able to say what they like.

btw - feel free to send the guy some lovely messages... i did ;)

Citizen Kaned

nope... it really was well over an hour!

he is lucky he was surrounded by decent medical staff. lots of people have issues like this leaving the gymn and just die.

something like sudden death syndrome. pretty scary stuff!!! glad im a lazy shit!

Citizen Kaned

how much?!?!

£130 for the complete audio book collection? you can get all the full movies on blu-ray for £50

even the ebooks are much more expensive than buying some real books.

one of the world's richest women is milking the kids... badly.

Citizen Kaned

Re: Reasons for Nintendo not to include graphics at more than 1080p

really? how many TVs do you see that arent 1080p? my TV is 4/5 years old and does 1080p fine.

some ps3 games are 1080p native but the vast majority are upscaled, which is cheating. same with xbox

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