The media centre of my world

Advantages: Does everything you imagine
Disadvantages: Does not play mkv files

...I got the Playstation 3 when it first came out and even then I was not aware of its capabilities. I have always bought Playstations and they had the best games and graphics of its time. Also Sony pioneered being able to play DVDs in a game console before XBOX did it first so for this reason, I trusted Sony to make something special. This Playstation came with a 60GB hard drive instead of the normal 8MB detachable memory cards that would go missing so this is a great step up in terms of user ability and in terms of memory space! What was a great step up was having access to the Internet on the Playstation 3 though it was tedious scrolling through the letters to type, but later Sony released a keyboard for the Playstation 3 to remedy this. As time went on, I realised that you could attach standard computer mega hard drives to...

missgroovychick 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3)

Drinking Wheat Beer at Berlin's Sony Centre

Advantages: It's easy to get to; plenty of seating; a microbrewery
Disadvantages: Soulless; gets very busy and noisy

...The dazzling Sony Centre on Berlin?s Potsdamerplatz might seem an unlikely place to find a microbrewery. Usually in this part of the world they take the form of beer hall style pubs, places with a traditional ambience, but Lindenbrau is a brew pub for the 21st century even if it sells a beer that has been made for hundreds of years. Banished is the idea of the bearded woolly jumper wearing drinker making notes in an ancient notebook; this modern pub-restaurant has a wide customer base and is hugely popular. I?m not much of a wheat beer drinker and I would usually choose some other beer in preference but we had been in a few brew pubs during our visit to Berlin and a wheat beer was always included when we?d ordered a tasting tray so I was beginning to change my opinion and was willing to try this brewery which specialises in its own...

fizzytom 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Virgin Media - Getting better...

Advantages: Basic sky channels are back!, Some good VOD content, good unlimited internet packages
Disadvantages: VOD reliability not 100%, webmail reliability & mailbox size, customer service rather 'hit or miss'

...** Important News/Update (Edit) 16/11/08:- Ok so on Thursday the basic Sky channels finally returned to Virgin Media, at least for those of us who are on the higher TV packages (their included in the L and XL packages, which are the two most expensive packages, I believe), which was good news for me! now I can access Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3 (Sky3 is also available on Freeview), as well as Sky News and Sky Sports News and for people on the XL package, we also get Sky Arts and Sky Arts2 as well as Sky Real Lives, which is nice, so obviously im quite relieved and impressed with that. I've also been trawling through the VOD content recently, I now feel more tempted to watch cable alot more than I have done over the last year or so knowing i can catch Bones and 24 Redemption and I can catch Fringe, a new show showing on Sky1 and its being...

IzzyS 01.01.1970 · Read review
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