Call of Duty 4
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Media
Singleplayer was incredibly short..
I know its got a massive amount of multiplayer play, but comon!
As I’m not a huge gamer, singleplayer is usually enough to satisfy me as I go painfully slow through it and if I ever manage to finish it I am sick of the game anyway. Not in this case, I finished the campaign in just under 10 hours and am now for the first time playing various parts of the game again on hard.
So I guess its still entertaining, but still there’s a limited number of times you can do the same missions over and over.
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On a lighter note, I got my Sony XL1BR Changer yesterday!
Its definitely as big as I thought it would be (read: massive), and has a nice polished apple-esqe look. Although that unfortunately means the front is a huge fingerprint magnet.
It has a nice solid feel to it and has a slightly noisy “whir” sound to it as the carousel turns, but as you don’t need to change discs around while watching a movie, thats not really an issue.
So far the only hangups I’ve had is that the “vista” install disc didnt actually support vista, I don’t know what sony was thinking when they shipped it out. But, thanks to the wonders of the internet I managed to download the latest installer from sony.
The second issue is the disc management software, it’s bundled into Windows Media Centre. Which is totaly fine for all the dvd movies I insert, but if I insert data discs like games or an avi collection, I have to open up the MCE interface and navigate to that disc in order for it to be inserted into the optical drive.
A long process to get the disc to show up in My Computer.
But as the net time to get the proper disc displayed in My Computer is still less than having to manually go find the disc and insert it into the computer, It’s a small price to pay.
Sony VAIO VGP-XL1B3 Media Changer/Jukebox
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Hardware, Media, Review
This awsome device from Sony is a definite must have for the geek in you.
At $100 from B&H, its a steal!
So on to the specs:
- 200 CD/DVD capacity
- CD/DVD writer
- DVD-R: 16x
- DVD-RW: 6x
- DVD+R: 16x
- DVD+RW: 8x
- DVD+R DL: 4x
- CD-R: 40x
- CD-RW: 24x
- FireWire interface, with daisychain support (up to 5 devices - 1000 discs)
- LinuxMCE support
Oh and it weighs 44lbs..
I would have expected a device like this to cost well above $300, and I believe when it came out it was ~$400. I think its going to be discontinued shortly so I’m eager to see what Sony will replace it with. Maybe something along the lines of this. A 400 disc changer, with audio/video output support.
Can’t wait!
For anyone thinking about buying it, and have family in NYC area, I would recomend planning a trip to visit them. As UPS to Oakville, ON costs $90. And customs fees brings the total shipping cost to just over $110, making shipping cost more then product.
Tags: linuxmce, Review, sony, Technology
