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[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

New 7 inch tablet from iBall - http://www.iballslide.com/

Specs are decent. PRice is 14K

[rsubras]

iball la irunthu mouse and headphones rendum vaangirukken..both were not upto the mark.......had lots of problems..ithu eppadi irukkumo

btw sakala.......... you have told about DELL mobile. how about an Acer or HP?

and what do you think about Airtel's own Tablet (Beeetel Magiq)

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide...s/20111011.htm

[VENKIRAJA]

Got a new HDTV. Plasma.
I am now thinking between a PS3 and a HTPC set-up. Please help me figure out.
I watch about 3-4 movies a week. Gaming, not much except for party gaming with friends and some motion sensing games for the sister (will be a bonus). I personally play FIFA and NFS, nothing else.

Gaming, 3D, Move Exclusives. All fine. PS3 has a dedicated bluray drive (future-proof), plus can stream movies, I hear. How good is the USB/HDD playback? How versatile is the playback? (All audio/video codecs, till recent)

HTPCs can be upgraded in minimal costs and can work as a downloading rig too. But, how much will a low-end HTPC cost? (Barring the Display obviously!) It might include capacity for some gaming NFS HP2 and FIFA 07 or 08 will suffice. HDMI and the ability to hook it up with an existing 5.1. (iBall Booster speakers for PC. Has the typical 3.5mm jacks. 3 of them) Also, can it be hooked upto to a PS3?

[venkkiram]

Got a new HDTV. Plasma.

may I know why you chosen Plasma over LCD and LED technologies? and how many inches the TV ?

[VENKIRAJA]

may I know why you chosen Plasma over LCD and LED technologies? and how many inches the TV ?

The viewing distance was small. 10' room, 8ft with the sofa or whatever in.
LCD pixelated too much and my budget didn't allow a LED purchase. Went with a 42" Plasma. Got it for 37k from eZone. LG. Almost the same price as on Flipkart. Satisfied with the Vibrant picture it offers. Much better than its LCD equivalent. And, I personally like it better than LED movie watching too. Agree its power-saving green-stuff and all that.. but Tamil bluray rips look a lot better in a LCD (proper distance) or even more dazzling in a Plasma. (This I found out only after buying it) I'm afraid about the Pixel burns when on Gaming and such. Adhu dhaan prachana.

[littlemaster1982]

HTPCs can be upgraded in minimal costs and can work as a downloading rig too. But, how much will a low-end HTPC cost? (Barring the Display obviously!) It might include capacity for some gaming NFS HP2 and FIFA 07 or 08 will suffice. HDMI and the ability to hook it up with an existing 5.1. (iBall Booster speakers for PC. Has the typical 3.5mm jacks. 3 of them) Also, can it be hooked upto to a PS3?

HTPC without gaming would set you back by at least 20K. Gaming HTPC with decent config would cost 25-30K. PS3 is your best bet, as of now.

[VENKIRAJA]

HTPC without gaming would set you back by at least 20K. Gaming HTPC with decent config would cost 25-30K. PS3 is your best bet, as of now.

Anybody with a PS3 here?
I absolutely have no idea regarding .mkv, .ogg, .mp4 playback with DTS sound or maybe some advanced codecs like x264 or h264. And, there are limitations on the HDD used. Only those 2.5" work and those which are 9 inches or less in the longer dimension. And 5.1 stumps me everytime.

Plus, the firmware confusion. I need a PS3 with a FW 3.55 or lesser to jailbreak it. Any PS I buy, if ships with a 3.60 FW, i cannot JB it

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

I am zero in gaming, that too, the gaming consoles connected to tv et all... almost 1 year ago i saw microsoft demo ing a conept where there is no joystick kinda hand terminal and u play the game via moving ur hands and the camera recognizes ur movement and takes as an input. is that tech, now available or still in labs?

Also read long ago that in some sony terminal, IBM's Cell CPU which is 8 core, is used. And that gaming console can act as part super computer, via grid computing, when connected to internet... sony, tried to lock down the device for hackers and hackers still came and publicly announced hack fest on those devices and it happenned too ippa enna nilavaram nu theriyala.

[littlemaster1982]

Sakala,

It's called Kinect in XBox 360 and Move in PS3. They are kind of add-ons for the regular consoles.

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

iball la irunthu mouse and headphones rendum vaangirukken..both were not upto the mark.......had lots of problems..ithu eppadi irukkumo

btw sakala.......... you have told about DELL mobile. how about an Acer or HP?

and what do you think about Airtel's own Tablet (Beeetel Magiq)

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/slide...s/20111011.htm

rsubras, u r aking about Acer and HP's tablet? becos HP not into android smartphones. Acer has some phones which didn't pick up at all.

As for as tablet, Acer Iconia 10 inch tablet is a decent buy. HP has washed its hand out of tablet business, due to zero sales. Recently it did a clearance by reducing the Touchpad price to just 100 dollars, few hubbers got it too!

Airtel's Magiq was initially announced with a 1 gg CPU but silently they pulled out that model and now selling a 800 Meg CPU. I dont know why! As of now, nothing in the link u gave is promising for me. May be this iBall tablet may be good, as it sports a real 1 Gig CPU( Texas Instruments Cortex A8) All these are 7 inch tabs. For 10 inches, (iPad is 9.7 inch) Motorola xoom and Asus Transformer is good, In India these tablets are costing 32K range. Same can be brought for half the price in US, especially during the upcoming holiday season.

1 month before, Staples US gave a $100 discount on all tablets and my friends brought a Motorola xoom(17K) and Dell Streak 7(10K).

If you have friends in US, and want to buy a good 7 inch tab, i strongly suggest Dell Streak 7. As for 10 inch tab, i strongly suggest Archos 101 G9 tablet which is 1.5 Gig dual core. Adn the price is much cheaper(18K) even without discount. Reviews are also good. This tab is available only in US