A lot of DVD's for a good price

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 19th, 2009 | 0 Comments

I recently just decided to splash out and get a load of DVD’s that I had always been meaning to get. I usually buy my DVD’s online as they are much cheaper than buying them here in the likes of HMV. So I ended up buying 10 DVD’s and a box set of a TV show!

In total for all the 10 films it only cost me €40.44! Not bad at all I think, that is definitely value for money :D . I bought all these DVD’s from Play.com. I have seen all of these films before and really liked them so had to get them! The best thing of all is that I got the Green Mile for only €3.99! And it costs €30 here in town!

The most expensive thing I bought was the Family Guy Season 8 box set that cost €22.49, however since I have all the other 7 seasons I had to get this one. The eighth season starts out not too good in my opinion however once you get to disc 2 and 3 it is hilarious :P . I got the two tea-mats of family guy in the picture above free with the box set.

I had to buy the 3 Christmas films! They are classics and as it is just over a month away I thought it is an appropriate time to get them, before they go up in price since other people will be buying them for Christmas.

Here are all the DVDs I bought and the price I paid :D :

Miracle On 34th Street - €6.49

The Truman Show: Special Collector's Edition - €6.49

The Green Mile - €3.99

Will Ferrell Collection: Blades Of Glory / Old School / Anchorman - €10.49

Home Alone 1 & 2 - €6.49

Brewsters Millions / Uncle Buck - €6.49

Family Guy: Season 8 - €22.49

Western Digital (My Passport Essential) Portable Hard Drive

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 18th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last week I went out and bought a new external hard drive :D . I had been meaning to get a new for a while now but just didn’t get round to it. So on my way home from college I went into PC World and bought a new one.

I already have an external hard drive, however it requires a mains adaptor, so it is not the best "portable" hard drive. So the new hard drive had to be USB powered.

After a while of looking at the various hard drives available I knew that the Western Digital was definitely the best. The one I bought is called Western Digital (My Passport Essential) Portable Hard Drive it looks really nice with a gloss finish.

I got the 250gb version for only €59.98, which is far cheaper than what I paid for my last one that required mains power. My old external cost about €120, basically double the price! But that is just because it has been so long since I bought my old external hard drive. Prices were definitely going to drop over the years.

One thing I hate is how hard drives are advertised, they say that you will have 250gb however you really only get 232gb! I have no idea what is taking up the other 18gb!i have formatted it a few times and still it is only 232gb, this was the same with my old hard drive, I think that the storage space that we actually will get should be on the front!

A good thing to note about this hard drive is that it can transfer data really fast! I transferred 8.05gb in only 2 and a half minutes!

Also I finally found out how to get the larger hard drives to get picked up by the PS3, all you have to do is format it to FAT32 :D . Just thought I would throw that in there, it is great, now I can play all my music and videos on my TV through my playstation!

**UPDATE**

Ok I found out why I am missing the 18gb, it is all to do with the American version of gb, in America they see a gb a 1000mb however really a gb is 1024mb. So those extra 18gb being advertised are not real! If it was the standard 1024mb as a gb then I would have had my full 250gb :D .

Sony MDR-XD200 Stereo Headphones

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: November 17th, 2009 | 1 Comments

I have always wanted to have a big set of headphones. The sound that you get from the bigger headphones is far better than earphones. I find that when it comes to a certain time at night, playing my music too loud will disturb others so I used to turn off my speakers and not listen to my music after a certain time.

No point just turning down the music! Music is meant to be played loud in my opinion, the louder the better :D . So I went looking for a cheap enough pair of headphones on Amazon, after a while of looking I came across these, Sony MDR-XD200 Stereo Headphones - Silver, they looked good and had been given some good reviews, and had an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars, so they had to be good enough, so I bought them :D .

Here is someone else’s thoughts on the Sony headphones:

I recently purchased these headphones to listen to Mp3's via my PC. So far I have to say I'm impressed. I wanted a big pair as we have two PC's in the same room and I wanted to listen to my music rather than gameplay behind me. They are not too heavy and I sit here for hours at a time and can with these on quite comfortably.

I have to agree too, the headphones are comfortable, and for the price at €16.49, I thought I might as well get them! Now don’t expect the sound quality to be the same as a set of headphones that cost €100 or €200, obviously the more you spend then the better the quality will be.

However when I got these in the post they were much better than I thought they were going to be, I personally think that the sound is great, and they are definitely good enough for what I want :D .