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Daily Archives: July 13, 2009

Even better in 1080p!

Still marveling over how much better everything looks in 1080p!

I’ve started playing Fallout 3 over from the beginning, and Silent Hill: Homecoming, the only true PS3 iteration of the franchise, looks far more creepy and atmospheric than before. Over on the Xbox 360 side, Fable 2 doesn’t seem to benefit that much, but most of the SquareSoft RPGs certainly do.

From the details in background landscape to the wood-grain rendering in lambo doors, there’s simply nothing that doesn’t look a lot better in 1080p than it did on 480i. Yahoo!

Finally have my new HDTV!

After two years of denying ourselves, my wife and I finally got ourselves what we’ve been wanting for a while as part of our videogame habit: a top-of-the-line Sony Bravia 32-inch 1080p HDTV with a 120MHz refresh rate. It has the Bravia 2 engine and, wow, the PS3 and Blu-Ray movies have never ever looked better.

Sure, some will say that 32-inches isn’t that big a set; but it’s the perfect size and at $772, it was definitely the right price! Everything looks better, the set works like a dream and it weighs about a third of the weight of my old Sony Wega 26-inch.

If someone offered me a handful of loose diamonds, I’m not sure which I’d rather have, I’m so happy with this set! While I’ll always have a soft spot for my decade-old Wega, we’ll be donating that to charity now; the age of HDTV has finally reached the Hansen household, and I think we bought exactly the right set for us, at exactly the right price and time.