Boxing News

Advantages: Quality, Easy To read, Likable
Disadvantages: Short, Price, Formulaic

...If Ring magazine is the world champion of boxing magazine it's big European rival is British based Boxing News that is now celebrating it's 100th year in production. It's currently a weekly magazine (though it's a registered paper) priced at £2.80 and released on a Friday ever week. Although the history of how it's become what it is, is an interesting story that saw one of my personal hero's Harry Mullan become it's editor for quite some time before his very untimely death, this review will stick to what the magazine currently is. It's currently almost full of regular features, like most magazines and it's opening article titled ?Fighting Talk? is written by current editor Claude Abrams and although not always a fan of his views an opinions it's often a well written piece to open the magazine. It's almost certainly based on just...

iamasadlittleboy 13.11.2009 · Read review
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A Box with No End ...

Advantages: Lennard Pearce as Grandad, & Classic Episodes
Disadvantages: Not all the Best & Special Episodes, No Extras

...? --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- The First Series 1 to 7 Box Set is stuffed with over 50 different episodes listed below. The great thing about this Box Set is that there is no particular order you must follow. There is a vast range of story lines for you to follow which do not overlap with episodes. You could start in reverse order and I guarantee unlike other programmes, you will fully understand from scene to scene without having a specific order to follow. This will allow you and others to view episodes individually at your own choice and leisure. Here you have an almost complete package of Classic British Comedy for both teenagers and adults. The only thing missing is that it does not feature each & every episode ever made for BBC Television. But the Box Set is a great introduction to those who have unfortunately not as of yet discovered 'Only Fools & Horses' as...

3min_man 19.10.2008 · Read review
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SKY HD Box

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: See Review

...I was very exited when my SKY HD box arived. I was very anxeious to get it set up. I knew there wasen't going to be that many sky HD channels to choose from but exited none the less. To prevent any ranting I will list the main advantages and disadvantages below. Dual tuner: This means that I can record and watch two different channels at the same time. Good for me as I watch loads of TV. This also has its draw backs because you have to have two seperate areal cables for each tuner don't ask me why. I would have been happyer if there was three tuners like the V+ boxes. The major draw back for SKY HD is there are a combination of things you can't do that you should be able to do with the dual tuner. For one you can't view the TV guid while two recordings are in progress. And it seems to prioritise recording an extra three minutes...

spamemailaccount2008 10.12.2008 · Read review
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  God In A Box

Advantages: Can almost take over from your PC
Disadvantages: power brick, noise

...minimum) • Standard definition and high-definition video output is supported Well pretty much what the steve's at Microsoft have done is shrunk an extremely high end PC into a box that can fit neatly into any existing set up. Each piece of hardware just about is custom made for the Xbox which is where it differs from the Playstation 3 but that's another story. It is essentially a customised IBM Power PC which boasts an unbelievable 3 x 3.2GHz all three offering 2 hard ware threads, which to compare for you, my PC has just one 2.4GHz processor, so lets say its around 5 times more powerful than the average PC & its strictly dedicated to gaming and media while the ATI graphics processor can produce a massiv 500 million triangles per second. I could go on, recounting the 360's supposed 16 gigasamples-per-second fill rate using 4X...

gaz_close 10.01.2006 · Read review
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A giant of a box with 201 bricks

Advantages: really good collection of bricks
Disadvantages: none

...Duplo are fantastic bricks I recently bought a box for my great niece it is her 1st birthday. Ok I know she will not be ready to play with these bricks yet but it was a case of I wanted to buy something she would grow into rather than something she had already got. Duplo bricks are suitable for 2 to 5 year olds. This box 5588 is a massive green box tub containing 201 pieces. The box is a strong plastic makes a fantastic storage container for the bricks. *Duplo bricks They are made by Lego a Danish firm. They were first made in 1969 after the popular Lego bricks which were first made in the 1930s. The firm had its roots in making wooden items including toys. The name Lego was introduced in 1934 an adaptation of the words that mean play well in Danish or an adaptation of the Latin to put together. By the 1950?s the bricks which...

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A game for those who think outside the box!

Advantages: Gameplay, Duration, Puzzles, Storyline
Disadvantages: Graphics, Length of Cut-scenes

...Professor Layton and Pandora's Box is an excellent game utilizing the Nintendo DS's features to their full extent. Although I only briefly played the prequel to this game, "Professor Layton and the Curious Village" my initial thoughts on both game gave me a verdict that this game had greater complexity and although the storyline did at points relate back to the previous game, gave a starting point for new gamers who didn't own/use the previous title. The game is obviously, if you have seen trailers or know the genre, a puzzle game, as you hear this you would probably immediately assume a few things that would have been compromised in, these being the graphics and storyline. Firstly, the graphics aren't the best you will have ever seen in a game, however it doesn't rely on graphics so this is why the quality lacks slightly. Secondly is...

Faehndrich 10.11.2009 · Read review
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Boxing... sport or barbarism

Advantages: builds confidence, respect and stamina
Disadvantages: deaths

...Boxing? barbaric or sport??? I tend to go with the latter as I enjoy the sport very much. Personally, I started boxing at school many years ago, (god I feel old), it taught me discipline, balance and most importantly respect? it also kept me fit and improved my hand-eye co-ordination. As my interest in participation grew I joined a local gym at the age of 16 and, over my time, sparred with many opponents, (including a very famous Irishman who became world famous), my liking for the sport growing as my skills improved? Then my career choice helped me continue in the respect I had acquired for this sport, contending in many amateur fights during my military life, (losing more than I care to remember? but some of them blokes are built like brick sh$t houses)? But, unfortunately for me, a combination of injuries, (not caused by...

blissman70 14.12.2008 · Read review
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BOX CLEVER

Advantages: Requires little attention
Disadvantages: topiary specimens can be expensive

...If, like me, you have always admired the knot gardens often found in the large country manors, why not give Box hedging a try. Having had a large chimney stack dismantled, I was left with a huge amount of old bricks. As I knew these are widely sought after in reclamation yards I wondered what to do with them. The answer was to have a patio area built at the rear end of my garden. Unfortunately, I was too timid to make this as large as I would have liked and once finished the end result was rather small,insipid and uninspiring.It was at this point that my longing for a knot garden came to mind and I had the idea of using box hedging to surround the patio area. This served two purposes, it made the proportions of the patio appear larger and it also enclosed it in an attractive way. Box is a very versatile plant. It can be used to...

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The Box

Advantages: Great up-to-date chart songs
Disadvantages: Too many breaks for adverts.

...'The box'- for all of you that do not know what it is, is a satellite and cable channel that plays non-stop music 24/7. I personally think it's a great channel, but many people dislike it. Lots of people say it's just ANOTHER copy of 'MTV'. But it isn't because there are no presenters on 'The Box' like 'MTV' and 'VH1'. It's a ring and vote system when you choose what you want to listen to, but many people do not ring up because of the extremely expensive call(phone) bill. Other people do not request because sometimes your songs do not get played. The channel also has many advert breaks which can get very annoying. But you do get to listen to all the new realeases before they come out on radio, TV and in the charts, which gets you singing to them before anyone else! The channel has many good and bad points as you can see, but I think it...

emu128 24.01.2001 · Read review
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Sky HD Box

Advantages: Great picture quality
Disadvantages: Quite costly, HD became a novelty after a while

...Bought this item a year and a Half ago, And i have to say its had it ups and downs. Don't get me wrong, this is a great item to have producing the full glory of HD on your TV, But is It worth the cost? I'd been looking around for a while at HD in the stores, seeing how amazing the picture quality seemed to be compared to SD. So we bought a HD TV, and had nothing to show it off. So I decided to pay the £250 for the Box when sky had a deal on. It seemed like a great deal, contained Sky + Built in which we had wanted for some time. The Engeneer came, and if I can remember back that, It was quite quickly. Set it up within an hour and off we go. Picture I had already experienced a bit of HD through my xbox, but no actual TV. When It was set up, it was great, the picture was just as expected, Just sat there watching the BBC...

Kovu123 23.01.2009 · Read review
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