PS3 should you buy one for christmas

Advantages: Best on the market, bluray play,
Disadvantages: expensive, not as many titles as 360

...your router and which ever other computers you have in the house. Very important for justifying it to the wife when the wedding pics come up in all their glory on your flatscreen. 4. Use it as a DVD player and it automatically upscales the DVD to make them look even better. 5. It has a good Internet Browser built in and the BBC are shortly bringing the iPlayer to PS3. 6. It is constantly being updated and improved via tried and tested over the air updates. 7. It looks fantastic. All black and shiny like the monoliths from 2001 a Space Odyssey. 8. Noise? What noise?? A barely audible slight, very distant hum on occasion. The XBox360 Elite sounds like one of those small portable vacuum cleaners and is really annoying in comparison. 9. It offers full 1080p playback via my Panasonic flatscreen and looks incredible as...

woodyrulesall 25.11.2009 · Read review
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PS3 slim

Advantages: Blu-ray, free online, nice extras like vidzone & iplayer. Almost silent operation
Disadvantages: Rubbish controller, still expensive, online nowhere near as good as xbox live

...Well, had the slim for a few weeks now (my 1st ever playstation), personally, I'm a little underwhelmed by it, I've been a gamer since the nintendo game & watch days & owned @ least 1 of the current gen consoles since the Mega Drive(Genesis). Graphically the system has the potential to wipe the floor with the 360, but this is really only going to apply to PS3 exclusives as any software house making a multi-platform game is going to be as cost effective (lazy) as possible & use the same graphics on all the games where possible(ok, they need to dumb them down for the Wii). My problem here is that I have yet to get a game for it that runs in 1080P, they all seem to be in 720P! Why???? I'm sure they are out there, but I haven't found one yet. I guess this is down to most HD tv's being HD ready rather than Full HD. Sound-Yeah, ok...

andyamn 27.10.2009 · Read review
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TomTom One 3rd Edition

Advantages: Easy to use, great additional features
Disadvantages: Slightly slower than other models on satellite detection

... TomTom One 3rd Edition Background TomTom have long been the leading name in Car Navigation Systems. For this reason, they are often not the cheapest, but are definitely the most reliable and have the best features. The TomTom One is the original version, therefore the simplest, yet the 3rd edition has many of the features of the newer Car Navigation Systems. Price and Packaging My TomTom One was bought as a Christmas gift for £122 from the website Pixmania. As already said, you can get cheaper models but the TomTom has the best features. The packaging is simple, a square box with the instruction booklets in the bottom, the accessories (windscreen affixer, USB cable and in car charger) on top of the booklets and the TomTom itself in a plastic case sitting at the top. Setup The TomTom One 3rd Edition...

martin0201 26.12.2007 · Read review
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The Sims 3 - The Best One Yet?

Advantages: New careers; personality traits; Great graphics and speed on my laptop
Disadvantages: Lack of choices within Create-A-Sim; Could be slow on some users PC's/laptop's

...a professional career as a footballer (more on this later). You can edit your Sims to look however you want them to look (overweight, underweight, beautiful, ugly...). They must then carve out lives for themselves - moving into houses (you can build these yourself), furnish their houses, get on their career ladders, have families...the possibilities are (almost) endless! CREATING A SIM With TS3, you can create Sims with far more detail than you could in the previous two games. You can create toddlers, children, teenagers, young adults, adults, and elders. You can either choose one of the pre-loaded faces on screen, or you can shape a face easily by dragging the mouse to create cheekbones, or a stronger jaw, for example. You can make your Sim have big muscles, a bony physique, or largely obese. I was disappointed with the range of hairstyles...

Sonic4290 19.08.2009 · Read review
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PS3, for you and me?

Advantages: Stylish, good games available + lots more on the way, blu ray
Disadvantages: No HD cable in the box, no rumble, limited BC

...The PlayStation 3 is Sonys third generation of home consoles. After the stellar performance of the PlayStation 2 and launch of its two rivals the Wii and Xbox 360 the PS3 has a tough act to follow. Sony are clearly not worried as according to their marketing the PS3 is a "supercomputer" and is capable of "4D" graphics, with such bold claims I had to pick one up for myself and see if it was true! Unboxing The first thing you will notice about the PlayStation 3 box is that it's huge! The Xbox 360 had a rather large box but this is incredible being about 1.5x as big. The box design itself is worth a mention as it is pretty neat and the front has a picture of the console floating with the wireless sixaxis controller on a black and red background. On the bottom left hand side you will see the model you have purchased which will be either...

hackersupr 08.02.2008 · Read review
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Playstation 3

Advantages: Cheap Blu-Ray player, great graphics, free wifi, internet browser
Disadvantages: Expensive, some games are better on 360, 40 GB model doesn't have backwards compatability

...There are probably 3 categories of consumer: (1) Gamers with a HD TV who are also quite interested in the multimedia/blue ray angle. (2) Serious gamers either without a HD TV or who are not interested in high def for films etc.. (3) HD TV/ multimedia people who are not that interested in games. If you are in (1) or (3) categories then this is a bargain at the moment. One of the cheapest/best blue ray players with constant support. Now upscales dvds and supports divx etc.. Supports the very latest version of blu ray and is future proof. Sony can not afford to have this fail and the constant updates are great and frequent. Also of advantage (over other systems) are: Low failure rate, built in wifi (even on 40 gb model), no external plug, no external hd-dvd (blu ray built in), no annual online fees. It also looks good underneath tv...

S3RG10 20.02.2008 · Read review
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Playstation 3

Advantages: Great graphics and choice of games
Disadvantages: expensive

...I got one last year for Christmas and found it to be better than my XBox 360 in almost every area, in my opinion this truly is the best games console on the market and would recommend it to anyone who is into their gaming. The graphics are phenomenal and the range of games available is tremendous! I find the controllers are much easier and more comfortable to use than the other consoles on the market today i.e. xbox 360s controller has no area for the hands to get a grip of and is quite frankly annoying especially when using after the playstation 3, the rechargable controller function is a tremendous help as i was always buying batteries and having the hassle of inserting them into the xbox and now i simply plug into the playstation console and the charges up no problem, i can even use the controller while its charging! i would...

stripe9 20.10.2009 · Read review
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Tom Tom one V3 Europe with TMC receiver - Good VFM

Advantages: Price, Free traffic updates, slimline, Tom Tom one home
Disadvantages: Accuracy of TMC (not tom toms fault), Map problems,

...I Recently replace my Garmin Street pilot unit with a TOM TOM V3 Europe (Traffic edition). I mainly did this because I wanted a low cost traffic solution, and I was able to get this from Halfords for under £170.00 (at the time of purchase) It came complete with the TMC receiver module. Another reason for choosing Tom Tom was how disappointed I was with my Garmin, and how much better my Wife's Tom Tom one original was compared to it. The unit is small and light, and the TMC receiver stays in my car fixed on with suction pads. It has a touch screen, and the menu icons are quite large. However I have thick fingers and I find that the touch pad keyboard screen used for Post codes/addresses is too small and I often get letters/numbers that I havent touched. The display screen is smaller than compared to many other units, but I have...

P_S_Price 16.04.2008 (17.04.2008) · Read review
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Playstation 3

Advantages: Easy to control
Disadvantages: Can't play normal dvds

.... ~~~Versions~~~ The versions of the Playstation 3 are 40 GB (not that good) The 60GB version (this is what I have) And there is the 80 GB version (that has lots of memory). Out of those I prefer the 80 GB version because it has the most memory and you can save lots of games on it, the 40 GB version ids useless because you can save as many as the 80 GB version plus you can download games on the Playstation 3 so the 40 GB version can't download as many games as the 80 GB or the 60 GB, the ones that are recommended to buy is the 80 GB version and the 60 GB version because the 60 GB can store games like all the versions of the Playstation 3 which are the 40 GB, the 60 GB and the 80 GB History Playstation 3 was known by the public on 16th may 2005, the version of the system was not presented there yet, either ~~~Top...

Car.Dude42 03.04.2008 (10.10.2008) · Read review
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playstation 3 slim: the facts!

Advantages: very powerful, multifunctional console
Disadvantages: No real price cut

...The PS3 Slim is the latest PlayStation 3 games console, but it is essentially the same console as before, but with slimmed down components and a new, smaller body. The key improvements in the PS3 Slim are the 120GB hard drive, up from 40GB, 60GB and 80gb in previous UK versions and making it slimmer has made it 36 per cent lighter, 33 per cent smaller and it consumes at least 34 per cent less power (for you know worry about you electricity bills). The PS3 Slim represents a new console just in time for x-mas, one that could start to make sony some profit because up to this is due to the vast majority of PS3 sold so far (around 24 million of them) have been sold at a loss. However, new manufacturing procedures have changed this recently, and a redesigned 45nm Cell processor along with other similarly small and power efficient components...

jonnyhal 29.10.2009 · Read review
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