British Television Music and Variety Guide: Top Pop 1964-2006: v. 2

CAMBRIDGE - When Marria Kee runs errands in Central Square, she carries a homemade hula hoop around her shoulder. Wednesday nights, she and fellow members of the Boston Hoop Troop meet at the Cambridge Common to practice and perform the art of Read more..

On a Friday afternoon in the Old Market, Caitlin Burt and her mother, Cathy, were in Drastic Plastic trolling through the music store’s new-release section. The residents of Alberta, Canada, were shopping from the vinyl selection, conspicuously Read more..

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Customer Review: Sunday Times Review
STEWART LEE MORVISCOUS Free Pop Forte MV01CD Unusually for a youthful new band, Morviscous cite the forgotten 1970s art-rockers Henry Cow and This Heat as influences. It makes little sense, careerwise, to enter the theoretical prepunk cul-de-sac these admirably English experimentalists made their own, but it’s thrilling to see people reappraise an approach that even its original exponents abandoned. The instrumentals here are as imaginatively unpredictable as a good free-jazz session, yet have been composed and structured with the rigour you’d expect from an overambitious 1970s prog-rock band. A stuttering sax snakes over pleasingly unresolved guitar chords on a debut album to file alongside Battles and Acoustic Ladyland in your prog-jazz section.
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High Resolution 7.2″ STN Colour Screen (PS2) Customer Review: A good screen with a few flaws
This screen caught my eye in the shops a few days ago and needing a way to play games at university I picked it up.

The screen slots on top of the old style of PS2 and filps open, the screen is central and quite large for what it is. Just under the screen is the power button, brightness and volume control and a switch for SRS. On the sides of teh monitor there is 2 headphone slots and a switch to switch between dvd and game mode.

On dvd mode the screen becomes slightly blurry with very vivid colors, i’ve not really played many dvds with this mode as i’ve only just got it recently.
With the game mode the screen is very very sharp, the colors are sadly duller then dvd modes. I’ve tested it with about 15 diffrent games from RPGs to racers and so far i’ve found the picture quality consistently high and it very easy to see what’s happening on screen.

Sadly this screen has two major drawbacks.
Firstly it doesn’t have 60hz support which means you wont be able to play import games or use the 60hz option some games have.
Secondly the screen forces widescreen, any game without a widesreen option will be stretched to fit the screen making whatevers on screen look fatter then it really is.
My last complaint is just a minor one, but the screen only gives you the option to adjust brightness this makes it impossible to adjust ither settings such as color or contrast, this is a shame as only the blurry dvd setting offers the vivid color setting I would like to use.

Overall i’ve found it to be a great product, being a student there’s no way I could afford a tv and liscense so this was an affordable option that offers a great deal for the price you pay. It’s just a shame theres no way to adjust teh majority of the settings on the screen.
Customer Review: PS2 On the Move - varying quality
I bought the Joytech screen for the long journeys I make up to the North of the country regularly and wanted to be able to play my favorite games as well as watch DVDs.

The Screen comes with two play modes, one for games and one for DVDs.

Having received it today, I was disappointed with the quality of the picture. It’s particularly bad for my absolute favorite game, Pro Evo Soccer 4. The screen doesn’t seem to cope too well, this may be down to the size of the players and speed of game play . It does work better with a game that uses larger characters and text such as Smash Court Tennis and Boxing games.

I tried the classic action movie Leon and was pleasantly surprised with the results. It provides an adequate picture and on the whole is better for watching DVDs.

It’s easy to setup and use and makes a nice bit of travel kit for the car. The picture quality will vary from game to game and I suspect for movies too. However, it beats counting Eddie Stobart trucks on the M1.

British Television Music and Variety Guide: Top Pop 1964-2006: v. 2
Customer Review: A National Institution For 42 Years
A fascinating insight into the history of all the acts/songs that ever appeared on the long-running BBC1 pop show Top Of The Pops (and it’s sister show Top Of The Pops 2). This has been years in the making, and for the very first time a comprehensive and ultimate guide has been published. If you are an avid fan of the show, or a fan of music in general then this is an essential point of reference, that will be used time and again.