Joystiq had never heard of the Bugatti Veyron, now they think Krav Maga is obscure ...

I'm beginning to wonder who exactly is writing this stuff now. Next they'll be talking about "obscure action movie star" Chuck Norris.

Good for NBC.

It's pathetic when a network literally has to put a gun to the head of TWC in order for them to add any new HD channels

you were doing well until your summary.

"better all round device?" hardly. As a piece of engineering the 360 is a terrible device. Proprietary hard drive, external power brick, jet engine for an optical drive, countless hardware failures, no HDMI in the original unit, closed media extender, limited codec support, no built-in wifi, no internet browser, poor DVD player ...

You should have said "better gaming system." It's the gaming content that makes up for the shortcomings of the actual box. For everything else the PS3 engineering whips it easily. Apart from the controller where the 360 design is better with the exception of the D-pad.

this version also means you have to wear a special helmet and think the operating commands in German.

does it play nicely with Skype and other non-cellphone devices this time around?

yep, this has been available from SonyStyle for a long time and it's just as useless now as the day it was released.

Another case of Sony promising amazing services that would utilize it, which then fail to appear.

Unfortunately Sony started out by selling and advertising units based on what would be available, not what was available at launch or would be soon after.

Most of their original sales pitch was based around products that still haven't appeared. Remember Africa?

If everyone had waited for everything that was promised at launch events and trade shows, Sony would have sold about 20 units.

someone needs to board up the windows and declare this home condemned.

Let's get to work on those interactive holograms they used in Minority Report, for the PS3. It will take less time.

I find it kind of pathetic that to fight the FiOS TWC has been running ads that say "all over our advanced fiber network" so they can drop the fiber optic similarity in there. And we can't even get FiOS in my state. That shows how worried they are when they are trying to fight a technology that isn't on the radar of most consumers in NC.

So TWC, how come your advanced fiber network still screws me for 5mb broadband and can't scrape up the bandwidth for more than 20HD channels?

Is it because you have no competition from other cable and fiber-optic services in this area, and can just sit around doing nothing to improve the value or performance for customers who can't get satellite?

"Ladies and gentleman, Windows 7 coming to your PC in 2009!

Optimized working drivers to follow. Probably 2011.

Or 2012."