I'd like to buy extra controllers. Hate playing games alone (or buying single-player games for that matter).

Doesn't many of today's digicams already have 3" LCD? So, are you getting much more with this dedicated picture viewer that adds 0.7" to the LCD?

HTC's new names have "RAZR" moniker wannabe all over it. Why are cell companies limiting themselves to 4 or 5 chars.

Like, buy a vowel man.

I happen to like these rims. They are a welcome change from the all-to-familiar wheel-spoke types that every other car sports.

Okay, someone please give me the true definition of "coupe". I always understood a coupe to be a two-door car. Then, Mercedes introduced a 4-door "coupe" recently, and now Audi's doing the same. Now, I don't understand what the meaning of "coupe" is anymore.

Please help me. --BK

23. C'mon people. you readers are supposed to be the electronics elite.... Its obvious this is a sham. SONY would have used a real House of the Flying Dragon DVD rather than a burnt copy. A HUGE company like SONY doesn't have time for one of their employees to burn a copy on his DVDR. It would have made more sense for them to just get a ready made DVD.


They _would_ have to use a DVD-R if they were trying to incorporate HD content in there. They most like wouldn't have been able to fit all of the movie (even if they encoded in MPEG4), but enough to fool the audience (they had hoped).

#9 (GBH) "We can't pay people less than the Chinese/Indians/Hondurans/whoever.

There ARE other ways to be competitive. Make things that are cheaper through superior engineering. Things that last longer through superior materials. Assembled better by higher skilled workers. Give your customer value for their dollar. There's a multitude of ways to win this game."

I couldn't have said it better myself. And to underscore GBH's point, BMW and Mercedes are doing just that: higher-skilled German workers using superior engineering and materials to assemble automobiles that are high value for the dollar. I don't understand why American car companies can't follow the same concept.

Let me guess: the SZ81 is missing bluetooth, WiFi and HDMI output. ;-)

This post has all the making for an Austin Power comment. Any takers?

This is yet another reason not to be an early adopter of any new system. Seems like they're always the one getting burnt.

Imagine the later buyers getting a cooler Xbox system (possibly with a slimer "brick").