So Santa was good to my household this year. The XBOX 360 has now been fully connected to the home entertainment system (Dolby Digital 5.1, Component Video to TV, Network Connection to Sympatico Home Networking Modem). The new XBOX is now complemented with the new 32 inch AKAI LCD TV which is great at displaying HD content from Bell ExpressVu 9200 HD PVR.
Phil has almost beat Kameo which is one of the games included with the 360. I’m a big fan of Project Gotham Racing 3. We also picked up an extra controller, the HDD, and Gears of War.
It took me a little while but now I can stream all of my Movies, Pictures, and Music directly to our 360 – which is then projected through the LCD TV and 5.1 stereo surround.
Next step – Upgrade the Main household PC with Windows Vista Premium so that we can take advantage of the built in Media Centre Extender found in the 360.
The AKAI TV was a great deal (Boxing Day Blowout Sale), I myself had never heard of AKAI but apparently AKAI was a leading brand of video cassette recorder in the 1980’s. The Akai VS-2 was the first VCR manufactured to have an on-screen display, which was originally named the Interactive Monitor System. This innovation eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program it to automatically record TV programs, tune in TV stations, read the tape counter and other common features by displaying the information on the television screen. It took several years for competing manufacturers to adapt on-screen display technology to their own products