Technology

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1419923]

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[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

DREAMCAST!

;)

[andrewducker]

I almost listed a Dreamcast - for chuma's sake if nothing else :->

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

CHU CHU ROCKET

[recycled-sales.livejournal.com]

YES! Oh dear god yes!

[chuma.livejournal.com]

It's broken :( I need a new one.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Sort of dreamcast; I don't really but honestly I'd love to be able to play Samba De Amigo properly again (it's all in the cellar because of no room for a Dreamcast, plus it was the Japanese version with a boot disc and it took 15 minutes to set the maracas up) and the Wii version was a shocking disappointment. There was a Gamers With Jobs (I think) article the other week that said 'I've spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on Samba De Amigo over the years and it never consistently works for any length of time...'

More people claim to have a PS3 than claim to have BluRay, which is interesting.

Although I don't have HDTV, we do have *two* HD computer screens (one integral, one peripheral) and of course it would be possible (though not easy thanks to evil DRM types) to get HD input to those if we cared.

You don't appear to have included phones (and PDAs) on the list of gaming devices; I have always played a lot of games on my PDA (ever since the Psion 3, on which I played mostly text adventures), only stopped in the grim year when I carried a BlackBerry (I carried a GameBoy for much of that year as well) and now play lots of games on my iPhone. Flight Control for the win.

[andrewducker]

Yes - lots of people seem to have missed the PS3/Blu-Ray link.

And you're definitely right about phones/PDAs. I have a couple of n-gage games on my phone. I sometimes wish for a longer commute for that reason. Although I tend to read books in that cirumstance anyway.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

Surprised you didnt list HD-DVD after yesterdays Slashdot headline that it still has a greater uptake in the States than Blu-ray.
http://slashdot.org/story/09/06/22/1339213/Blu-ray-Adoption-Soft-More-Still-Own-HD-DVD

I have around 10 HD-Dvds, where as poisonduk has around 15 Hd-Dvds and 25 Blu-rays.

Atari Jaguar with Tempest 2K for teh win!

[andrewducker]

I was inspired by that report. But I don't care if people want HD DVD, as they can't have it in the long run :->

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

In the long run people dont want Blu-ray either. We're most likely going to end up downloading HD content. Look at itune sales verses CDs.

There is also nothing stopping HD-Dvd re-appearing as a cheap format. The tech is proven, the format was cheaper to produce. I was half expecting cheap HD-Dvd players out of China to appear then content to restart.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I don't play computer games, but I often overhear them. And then yell GO GO GO in response.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I play whatever my friends have. And they have everything...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

[x] I don't play computer games. Although there are a couple of noir-ish/hardboiled detective things that have splendid-looking trailers. But that would mean pissing about with the tiresome bloody people who sell game-boxes and flat tellys and oh god ugh, frankly.

[andrewducker]

Talk to people? To buy things? Have you not heard of the internet?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

[Other]
I don't. As in TV or computer games.

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

I spend my gadget budget on...
[] Gadgets
[] Swords

I can play computer games obsessively...
[] As soon as I am home from work.
[] When I am old.

A good sword is
[] One with lots of spikes, and a complicated blade, oh and jewels and gold on the hilt.
[] Near to hand as I type this.

[andrewducker]

I am looking forward to breaking my legs so I can spend 6 months lying around catching up with my
[]reading list
[]computer games
[]coding projects
[]writing

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Oh, gracious:

[]knitting/sewing/other craft projects
[]melodeon/banjo/other instrument practice
[]blogging
[]fanzine pile (though this might be 'reading list')
[]tv/dvd backlog
[]inbox

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Also, for 'breaking my legs' read 'retirement', except that I have loads of other, leg-requiring things that would then have to go on the list, like MORE FESTIVALS INCLUDING ALL THE MID-WEEK ONES and []housework.

Also, 'maternity leave' -- though it's long past for me. But I *did* catch up on a great deal of TV & DVD, and quite a lot of video games.

[andrewducker]

Well, I don't _insist_ on breaking my legs. Winning the lottery would do me just fine :->

Maternity leave is unlikely for me, short of Varley-tech becoming common.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Certified (and possibly certifiable) Halo nut, so PC and Xbox and Xbox 360. My elderly SDTV literally died under the strain of my Halo 2 addiction in late 2004 (right before I was going to hold a New Year's LAN, and one of the Bungie guys was going to drop by while he was in town too) so I got my 26", 85lb cube-o-glass HDTV then as an attempt to future-proof a bit. Pity that you can get the same size and quality of TV for half the price and a quarter the weight now.

I selected "no hurry" for Blu-ray because I suppose I'll eventually end up with a player, but with such a small screen-size BD's resolution is serious overkill; my upscaling DVD player is quite adequate, so there's no real burning need for me to shell out for a new player and pay a premium per disc.

-- Steve is still awaiting a digital-to-analog signal converter for his rabbit ears, as they're not commonly available in the Great White North yet even though the Southern Menace has already converted over. Grr.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

For "Would like it, but no hurry" read "Would like it, cannot afford it, unlikely to be able to afford it in forseeable future."

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I only play a few old PC games - Magic the Gathering, Doom - and various old arcade, console and home computer games under emulation, such as Super Mario World and Super Pang on the SNES, Defender and Gauntlet from the arcade roms under MAME, and Boulderdash on the C64.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

I don't play games on ANYTHING.

[random-redhead.livejournal.com]

you missed the "I don't play computer games at all" option. Seriously, we do exist!

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I'm one of the ones who don't play. I do dream of making games though - but that's different...

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Unexpectedly, my new gaming laptop came fitted with a Blu-ray player, a HD screen and a TV-out socket.

So... I technically ave a Blu-ray player but we still watch telly on a clunky old 32" CRT 'square' screen TV. I'm watching the price of large, quality widescreen HD TVs dropping and I suspect we won't be getting one until we have to.