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Great...now there's gonna be about 200 of us pouncing Dell for those 1gig memory sticks... I'm not... people I know have had problems with Dell. That and, since I live in an apartment, I'm leery of ordering expensive stuff and then having the mailman leave it in front of my door. Or worse, UPS. Twice now the UPS guy in charge of my area had marked that he attempted delivery and no one was home, but since I track my packages, I had been deliberately sitting at home waiting. On one of those occasions, he did bring it the next day after I complained to his supervisor. On the other occasion, I had to drive a half hour out of my way to go pick up my package at their HQ. Again, complained to the supervisor.

Shockwave! Damn thats so foolish of me! But hell no to Brawn...I'd rather have Mirage or Bluestreak... I cheered when Brawn got blasted in TF:The Movie! Mirage! How could I forget Mirage!

I have a 512 MB stick, and while I haven't actually tried getting any Macross on it yet, I've found that the 512 is good for about an hour and a half of video, depending on the settings you use to convert your video files and the size of the orignal video file itself. Screw $450 2GB Memory Sticks. Last I checked, they're Duo PRO High Speed (which the PSP can read, but only as a regular PRO), and are more suited for professional digital photography. I'm just going to hang in there for another month. Then Gamestop will start to carry the 1GB for around $150.

Tell the PSP to figure out everything automatically, and make sure your router is set to "Mixed B/G" mode since the PSP doesn't work with G.

Doesn't Sony replace PSP units with dead pixels? Sometimes. Maybe. They're encouraging people to play with their PSPs to see if any dead pixels bother them, and if they do, they'll handle it on a case-by-case basis. Almost everyone I know with a PSP that has a dead pixel, both personally and on the boards, has stated that their dead pixel doesn't bother them.

You gotta have Shockwave and Brawn, too.

And it IS an adaptation of G1. A straight up origin story. I was afraid that a live action TF movie would look like ass, but after seeing the Citroen commercial with the breakdancing car/robot, I'm convinced that they actually could make a sweet-looking live action TF movie. Realistic-looking CGI Optimus = kick ass movie, reguardless of plot.

Sticks & Stones, my friend..Sticks & Stones, Ha! BTW, at least HG aligning their product with an orginization that deals with making world a better place to live. Really? Which one? In any case, at least Big West comes up with some original content now and again. In 20 years, all HG has is Robotech, and even that wasn't really original. Original content let's see......Macross 2......Macross 7....Countless Macross video games..... This isn't about which orgnization is better, to me they're both rich fat cats that are doing the same thing. Sell, sell, sell, and sell. List of Big West Anime Macross, Macross II, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Dynamite 7,Macross Zero Getter Robo Go Idol Tenshi Youkoso Yoko Irresponsible Captain Tylor Orguss, Orguss II Southern Cross Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer Yeah, everyone is in the business of making money. But at least most companies turn out something new every so often.

Oh, right... no, like I explained, your save game stuff goes on the Memory Stick. If creating the folders by hand doesn't work for you for mp3s and what not, try moving your game save data to your PC, then format the Memory Stick and move it back.

Sticks & Stones, my friend..Sticks & Stones, Ha! BTW, at least HG aligning their product with an orginization that deals with making world a better place to live. Really? Which one? In any case, at least Big West comes up with some original content now and again. In 20 years, all HG has is Robotech, and even that wasn't really original.

CRT is definately the way to go if you want a smaller TV. But if you want a bigger TV, CRT sets are simply to large and heavy, and the picture seems dimmer the larger you go beyond 36" JsARCLIGHT, I don't think DLP TVs are really any larger/thicker than RP LCD. LCD computer monitors are pretty thin, but also relatively small. At the 44" size, they're both between 14"-15" deep.

Not sure exactly what you mean, but if you never formatted it, and you still saved games on it, it's fine. You just need to create the rest of the directories yourself. When browsing the PSP's Memory Stick (for the sake of discussion, let's say your PC named it 'I'), you should have two folders. I:\MP_ROOT I:\PSP Unless you want to watch movies, you don't need the MP_ROOT folder. (For those of you that do want to watch movies, there should be another folder inside, I:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01, and all of your movie files go in there. Remember, they must be in the mp4 format, and they must be named M4Vxxxxx.mp4 where xxxxx is the number of your movie. If you have two movies, they would be M4V00001.mp4 and M4V00002.mp4). Inside the PSP folder, there should be four folders (if you already have save data, the PSP must have created one of them already). I:\PSP\GAME I:\PSP\MUSIC I:\PSP\PHOTO I:\PSP\SAVEDATA Pretty self explanitory. GAME is where games that can load from the Memory Stick (like future Emulators) would go. MUSIC is where you put your mp3s, and PHOTO is where you put your jpg files. SAVEDATA should be the one that's already there, and that's where your game save files and your Network Settings file go.

If by that they mean whoring their bastard series for 20 years with almost no original content to show for it, then that'd be accurate, right?

Yessir! So... actually... I was kind of thinking it'd be better if they used Voltron instead of Robotech. Everyone likes Voltron.

Within the next 5 years, analog broadcasts are supposed to be ceased completely. Current schedule is at the end of 2006, NTSC ceases to air. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/digitaltv.html Hence why I wouldn't even consider buying ANY TV that wasn't at leat DTV-ready. Right on, which is exactly why I'm sticking with my good old fashion 27" CRT brute, the generic $10 a month cable, and S-Video hookups until I can afford to buy a nice 42"-50" Widescreen HDTV, in either RPLCD or DLP.

Of course. It uses the magic "M" word, which is as good as gold. It can do no wrong, and everything it touches is pure and perfect. Personally, I don't think the UN should mess with either. It's kinda like having David Spade host some award show for videogames... it's one of those things that the guys in suits think is "cool" that really just comes off as lame. But if you have to chose between one or the other, it's always better to go with the original than the horribly spliced and bastardized knock-off. If you put it that way, it does kind of make sense. Hate to admit it, but I'm with AOne and Arnie. Especially if Hillary runs in 2008 *shudders*.

But you can't just think of the present... I'm assuming our friend here won't be replacing this TV anytime soon? Within the next five years, HDTV television broadcasts will gradually become more common. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will start to replace standard DVDs. And it's a given that all three next-gen videogame consoles will support HD video; 16:9 widescreen support is also much more likely. My advice to you, Ladic, would be to think about how much you want to spend on this TV now. If it's going to be a smaller TV and you think you might want to invest in a larger TV down the road, go with that Samsung. At 30", a CRT TV is pretty heavy, but not unmanageable, and for a Korean company, Samsung's products (at least the ones I've used) are pretty much on par with their Japanese competitors, and usually more reasonably priced. For anyone else taking a gander at this thread and thinking they want to go more-all out that Ladic, I'll warn you off plasma right now. Yes, they're the thinnest. Yes, they have an absolutely vibrant picture. But they're also expensive to buy, expensive to maintain, problematic with videogames, and more prone to burn-in than other units. Rear projection LCD TVs are less expensive, but you really have to be looking at them dead on for the best picture. They're also a bit thicker than all but the CRT units. If you're on a budget, they're not a bad choice. For your money, though, from everything I've read and everyone I've talked to, DLP is really what you want. They're pretty close to plasma in price and not quite as thin, but they're nearly as vibrant with better blacks and fewer issues with videogames and burn-in.

Crawl before you walk? Did the first automobile move at 200mph? Did the first plane reach 100k feet, or break mach 1? You have little faith... Right right... and following that line of reasoning, it'll still be awhile before anyone's stomping off to work in their Zaku... but maybe I can get me a Ball in my lifetime...

Right. As I mentioned before, the surface of the front of the PSP isn't actually the LCD surface. Rather, most of the unit's face is under one uniform layer of plastic. As long as you're careful around the buttons and the UMD drive, you should be alright to wipe the front with a damp cloth.

I just keep my PSP in its sock when I'm not using it. The entire front face of the PSP seems to be one piece of plastic, and the actual LCD itself seems to be underneath said plastic. So I figure it's probably okay to wipe the PSP's screen area with a damp cloth (I'd be careful around the buttons, though). For those worried about liquids, though, I'll just point out that I spilled a glass of coke on my laptop once. No problems, save for the buttons sticking. Figuring that water couldn't do more damage that coke, I misted the keyboard and wiped the whole thing down. Works fine to this day.

that ain't real.....right? Definately not. Although it is ugly enough to be a Sony product. Yeah, but look at the size of the disc loader/UMD loader compared to the rest of the unit. To be real, the PS3 would have to freaking enormous... say what you want about Sony's designs being ugly (frankly, only the metallic purple they've used in PC and laptop casings for their VAIO line has really been ugly, IMHO), it's Microsoft that makes consoles you need a forklift to move.

I think almost everything pales in comparison with that little "prank" . You said it! At first I was quite suprised...Obviously would have ment a lot of changes in our lives...But I quickly got rather excited about the whole thing...even started laying out preliminary plans for the babys room, telling a few of my friends, etc...this was going to be so cool Then she clued me in on the joke and now I feel let down If that's how you really feel, maybe you guys should think about starting and family.

Hard drive's in the backlpack with the battery. Remember the Proton Packs they used in Ghostbusters? Now imagine that, instead of going to a thrower, the cord runs from the backpack into a PSP.

Simple solution for that: Don't buy it. Or buy it for Lumines anyway, and trust that the games you want will start to come in for it. But you see... I buy hardware for software. I don't buy software for hardware. A system with no games I want is crap, regardless of how powerful it is. Besides, while I'm sure somethign I want WILL come out eventually, when it does we'll be a price cut or 2 down the road, as well as 3 hardware revisions. I'll get a better sysetm for less money. Hardware revisions won't be like the N-Gage's. Any hardware revisions that Sony will do to the PSP at this point would either increase the price, or negate any potential price drop. nah it won't be anything major. most likely better latches for the disc launcher and maybe better analog stick. Right. I wasn't speaking in terms of new case, new features, etc. I was speaking in terms of fixing existing flaws(one's already done, yay!) and reducing the cost. There are not two versions of the NES. There's close to 15. There are not 2, 3, or even 4, PS1s. There's about 10 if I recall. My bad. I thought you were thinking of a more drastic change, ala the rumored PSP with 40GB harddrive.

Simple solution for that: Don't buy it. Or buy it for Lumines anyway, and trust that the games you want will start to come in for it. But you see... I buy hardware for software. I don't buy software for hardware. A system with no games I want is crap, regardless of how powerful it is. Besides, while I'm sure somethign I want WILL come out eventually, when it does we'll be a price cut or 2 down the road, as well as 3 hardware revisions. I'll get a better sysetm for less money. Hardware revisions won't be like the N-Gage's. Any hardware revisions that Sony will do to the PSP at this point would either increase the price, or negate any potential price drop.