StarFox Adventures: Dinosaur Planet Comments by Rob Fahey
Hands-On - Shinji gets to grips with Fox and company in a murky corner of London
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Yeah I got the purple one!
Doesn't bother me really, that's the colour I wanted. The black one would need dusting too much! I buy everything in silver if I can, my preferred colour. The Panasonic one looks groovy, but I've got a DVD player already. Soon to get a decent Tosh TV too, a couple of Wavebirds and I'm sorted! |
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I would like a spice (orange) one. I have put off buying one (in my old age I have dropped early adopting in favour of a "critical quality" factor (when I am skint at least! Then you can pick up the few good games on the system second hand)). Like there was no point in buying a PS2 for about a year, as there was nothing worth playing on it. Getting GC for my birthday though, next week. Purple I think. Remember the cool colours the GBA had when it was announced, then the crap ones it was released in? I thought the orange ones were great.
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Nem - which Tosh did u go for? I opted for their best NICAM 32" widescreen (linkage) simply because I didn't need the surround sound etc. (already got it)
God it is lovely, although it does kind of lord it over the lounge a bit - my lounge only measures 7'x10'
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Yeah Nem - saw that when I went to get mine from Comet (mine was a Comet-exclusive unfortunately, as mentioned in that review I linked) but mine was only £850 and the extra £600 for the one you're linking really couldn't be justified by the slimmer case and surround sound (although the TV being slimmer may have helped with getting the damn thing up to my top floor flat) ;-)
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Tricky I have this problem to come, 1st floor flat also. I bet the delivery guys hate people like me!
What I really wanted was a wallmounted plasma, with a flat space is premium. But, starting at 4K I really can't justify it. Although Starfox would look good eh (covers ar£e against Zappage). But the slimline Tosh is a 32" screen in the space of a 28" frame, if you get me, so it'll take up the same space as the Bush and it looks looooooovely.
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otto - check online. You can usually knock £100-200 off the retailers on price (as you already know anyway). It is possible to get 32" widescreen for £500 but not if you want flat screen or 100hz display. Possibly you could get a 28" for around that with flat screen and 100hz but don;t bet on it.
Nem - don't get me wrong, I think that set looks lovely (very sleek) but I definitely couldn't justify the extra expense. My wallet had a coughing fit when I bought the telly as it was. It needed a glass of water and a lie down on one of the chairs at the collection point before it could get going again :-) |
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Ssuelid, I'm not sure TBH regarding progressive scan....but from what I've read, yes, it does do the S-Video input...but what realistic difference that has over RGB SCART I couldn't say.
My girlfriends parents actually have one, so I'm gonna sneaksie over and have a look, but the Dad is overly protective of the remote so I'll wait til he's out! |
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Nem - my thoughts exactly. Buy quality and it might just last a few years more. Now, do I actually get an X Box or do I just get a normal DVD player (because if there's one bad thing about my nice new TV, it really does show how bad a DVD player the PS2 really is). The DVD playback I've seen from the X Box is definitely much better than the PS2.
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Nem - in order, component is the best quality for video, followed by RGB via SCART or SVideo, followed by composite.
The RGB vs SVideo argument is an iffy area in my case SVideo is just as good as RGB for everything apart from the Sky digibox. Component inputs on a TV are pretty rare and thats the input that will/may support progressive scan. Tricky - thanks for that. |
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Component also then I guess, this is why I want to go and have a proper look at her parents, just to see. Some reviews are for the US version so I wanna be sure... Getting into really technical stuff with TV's and audio is dangerous business, it gets expensive REALLY quick! As for the PS2, with the DVD playback you're not getting a true RGB SCART picture, you're getting the Sony abortion. RegionX is about 14 quid and will sort it, apparently. I'm guess you're seeing a proper RGB picture with the Xbox hence the difference.
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"As for the PS2, with the DVD playback you're not getting a true RGB SCART picture, you're getting the Sony abortion. RegionX is about 14 quid and will sort it, apparently. I'm guess you're seeing a proper RGB picture with the Xbox hence the difference. "
Play are doing Region X, with a remote and a RGB cable for, IIRC, £18. I ordered one a couple of weeks ago so I could use the PS2 as a second DVD player. The quality is still crap - well under par for even a £200 DVD player. |
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It's not up there with the best is it!
Still, for a console+DVD it's ok, you get what you pay for. Personally I went from a PS2 to a standalone DVD player and never looked back. But the PS2 plays DVD's ok, pictures not great, but sound can be chucked out via optical digital and that's a plus. Then again, so can the Xbox, and that's got a better picture. Time to sort it out Sony! I would say, if you've spent out on the TV, get a dedicated DVD player.
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I've got Region X already - makes no difference. On both S-Video and RGB you can still see lot of noise on the picture. And before you start saying that the DVD is at fault or the original film, this was Final Fantasy (I nicked it off me mate to have a gander - not bad... not great, but not bad) and as that's direct from a digital source there shouldn't be any noise.
As a comparison I fired it up on my Dad's Pioneer DVD player going through his 28" version of my Tosh and there was no noise. |
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Crikey, those are big tellies. Stop trying to make me jealous when I've only just bought a new one myself!
It hasn't got 5.1, or 100Hz, or quite that big but it's about half the price of those that you're looking at, it's got three SCART sockets (RGB in one, no component though) and it can get a decent picture out of the crappy indoor aerial held up with string I was using with my old 14" telly. At the end of the day that's what was important. That and it not being 100Hz so I could still use my lightguns! otto: You can get a 28" flat wide telly for 500quid. Mine was in that region and it was a decent make (though not Sony) and came with Dolby Surround built in. I also bought it from my local shops (i.e. not online) for that price. |
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is that still viable?
Yes it's still viable, but only just. New taxation has basically f..ked everyone, so they've just gone back into permanent roles, which is mad. My contract keeps rolling, so I'm putting myself in a position whereby I can save alot and cover myself should I need to look for new work, whether that be permie or contract. I've got some permie offers, but I'll stick with the contract as long as they keep paying me! |
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