Video-Games Reviews

I purchased this television set two years ago in 2004. Ever since, there have been some annoying problems.

1) The sound isn't really the greatest around. There are times, for brief moments, when it the speakers seems great, then the sound coming from the television seems off a bit. I can't put my finger on it, but it doesn't sound "high quality".

2) For about a year now, every now and then when I turn the television on, it goes directly to closed captioning. Not a big hassle to change it over to regular television, but a hassle nonetheless.

3) The picture quality is odd. The skin on the people on the television sometimes has an odd orange tint to it, even when I've adjusted it a few times. Adjustments need to be made about one every two months.

4) Now, exactly two years later, the television won't even turn on. I spent a great deal more for this television then what they are selling it for now, and I was hoping to get what I paid for. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the case.

Now, as I've searched the net looking for a fix, it seems that these are not uncommon occurrences with this particular model. Needless to say, I am very disappointed and will look at other brands while searching for a replacement television.

I had to return this tv because the sound was so bad. There is a constant buzzing (probably due to 60Hz hum) coming thru the speakers at all times. It's really noticable thru the headphone jack which makes headphone listening useless. The display in the store had the same problem, too (I checked with headphones). This is not the same sound as the high-pitched whine that the tv makes from the transformer! That is annoying, too.
The picture was fine but could not get the color correct even after adjusting every picture setting. This is unfortunate because it has a nice remote and great features for the price. Not recommended unless you are using in a noisy environment and without headphones.

I've had this TV for over 2 years now and i have had no problems with it at all. The sound is great and so is the picture

I bought this so that I could play CD's or listen to the radio while "scrapbooking". Its light and compact, so its easy to carry from room to room.

The television only gets one channel using the attached antenna, but it comes with an external antenna adapter so I am able to hook it up to my house antenna and get decent reception on about 20 channels. A car adapter is also included, which is a nice bonus for such an inexpensive item.

There are several inputs on the back of the unit, so you CAN hook it up to a VCR or DVD player if you wanted to. Its kind of a nice option that you wouldn't expect to find on a unit of this price.

Having said all that, the unit is pretty cheaply made. Its plastic, painted silver and I think if it was dropped on a hard surface it would be destroyed. The power, volume, tuning, and selection buttons are plastic painted to look like chrome. The upside I guess is that the unit itself is extremely light. The door to the CD player is sturdy enough, which is the most important thing and the attached telescoping antenna is real metal.

The sound quality is decent, and the television picture is crystal clear on the channels that it does get. All in all, I'd recommend it to someone looking for a combo unit that you can take in the car, camping, or just about anywhere.

OK, flashback to about a year ago. I moved to a rural area, with marginal, at best, phone line quality. I was using a cheapo $10 lucent v.90 winmodem at the time, and decided that to make the best of what I had (I can't get broadband here) I'd invest in a decent modem. I am an IT industry professional, and the word on the street was USR made a solid, reliable product. So I bought the best PCI modem USR had to offer, the Performance Pro. Connect speed stayed about the same,(around 44K) but throughput doubled. Flash-forward. I recently fried my old USR PP, (oops) and bought a new one. To say the least, I am less than impressed. The new modem connects consistantly at 24K or less, and throughput is equally bad. Driver up-to-date? Yes. Same for Firmware. No amount of init string tweaking, enabling/disabing settings, protocols, etc. will correct. As a sanity check, I reinstalled my cheapo V.90 (I am using it now), and am once again getting reasonable performance, if not what I once had with my OLD USR. I can only conclude that you should seriosly think about buying this modem if you have marginal line quality as I do. USR was once THE source for good modems. I am disappointed to see this has changed.

You found it!.I bought this modem about one year ago mostly because it worked under Linux,the modem worked properly for 2 months and then suddenly quit working,all i got was a "NO DIAL TONE" error,of course i did check all the connections but still no luck.
Again about 2 weeks ago i installed it on my new home built computer running Windows XP and it worked flawlessly for an hour and then i get disconnected,now when i tried to log on to my ISP i get the NO DIAL TONE error again every time(again my phone line and cable connections are OK.).The USR.COM web site offers no help,they do not even have a driver for Windows XP available yet(Sept./2002!),so i went to Best Buy and bought this [$$$]Diamond SupraMax PCI Winmodem and i am back on the net again,my connection speed seems a bit slower(44.0 Kbps) but for a cheap Winmodem is OK.My advice(based on my own experience): stay away from U.S.Robotics,Best Data and Creative modems regardless their prices.Good luck.

I bought this hardware modem a few weeks ago after a bad experience with a software modem. On my Windows XP system, installation was a snap. I inserted the card and turned on the system; the system recognized the card and automatically installed the necessary drivers. I didn't even need to open the enclosed CDs. Since installation, I've consistently connected at 52 kbps. (I can't vouch for similarly trouble-free installation under Linux, DOS, NT, etc.)

My problem: upgrading the modem to support the V.92 standard. If your ISP also supports the V.92 standard, the upgrade provides your modem with a few neato features, none of which I've tested. However, I did try to upgrade, and that was a pain. You have to know the product id (3CP5610A) rather than the product name to download the upgrade, and you have to use U. S. Robotics' Control Center software to install it. I had no luck with Control Center, so I tried to install the upgrade manually. Eventually, I succeeded, but without the help of U. S. Robotics: their website provided no useful information. This may not be representative of their software and technical support in general, but I took it as a bad omen.

In short, in my experience, the hardware is good, but the software and the technical support are bad. Buy this only if you're willing to rely on your system (or your wits) to perform the installation.

This gamepad has one of the worst D-pads I have ever used. Not only does the pseudo-analog functionality make it difficult to use in games that expect digital controls, the design of the stick is such that the pad gets stuck in the housing if you push it too far. Don't bother.

A friend gave me this pad before considering throwing it in the trash. After two days of having it, >I< threw it in the trash. The D-pad has got to be the worst thing about it, its a D-pad that wants to be an analog stick. So its never fast enough on oldskool games because of all its "give." It has the right ammount of buttons (Start, Select, L & R) but that D-pad is soooo hoakie. I'd rather have an old Turbo Touch 360's flat touch panel from my Nintendo days. Atleast those actually worked. If you want console quality but on your PC, don't bother with flimsy copycat PC gamepads because they ALL suck. Get a Lik-Sang adapter and you can use PS1&2 pads on your PC! Download Joy2Key and you'll have awesome Keyboard and Mouse mapping software just like any Saitek or Logitech pad.

This is by far the WORST controller I have ever used. The calibration is terrible, and the little "Precision" button is a joke. While playing Final Fantasy VII (with an emulator), my characters have attacked each other just because of the controller's sporadic nature. The up directional button doesn't work at all--my characters just end up going down instead--and the cursor goes crazy without even touching it. Please do not waste your hard-earned money on this device. You will be terribly disappointed. Today I went out and bought a Logitech Dual Action Gamepad for the same price at Best Buy. We'll see how that goes.

As you'll read in other reviews, yes, the graphics are horrible. What disappointed me is the shortcomings of the game. The Big Blind is not able to bet pre-flop (if you're thinking about buying this for someone and don't know what this means, take my word, that this is a big deal). Also, in the no-limit game, you are not able to specify how much you would like to bet (you only get to choose from "bet" (the blind), "raise" (twice the blind), or "All-in". I got this for Christmas and will be returning it. Please save yourself the money (or save the person you're thinking about buying this for a trip to the store to return it).

This game has very disappointing graphics - There are lines running through the entire game. Tried an adaptor and the batteries, hoping that was the problem, but it wasn't. Not worth the money.

Playing Texas Hold'em was disappointing. You can only bet/raise a pre-set amount specified in the game settings before you play. I agree, the graphics are sub-par. I will give it another test to make sure I'm not missing something, but if not, I'll be returning it.