A month ago I received my HR20-700 from DirecTV. After months and months of waiting I would finally be able to record the HD programs that I like to watch every week. I’ve had an RCA DTC-210 HD receiver for some time and it’s worked flawlessly with both OTA and satellite delivered HD feeds, but when it comes to recording my DirecTivo has always carried the load. So imagine my excitement when I finally get the call that the HD DVR is available. Now I revert to one unit vs. two and have the best of both worlds, right? Wrong! Initially I reviewed this unit fresh out of the box and at a cursory glance it looked promising. Having used it for a month now, I’ve determined, the HR20-700 is almost worthy of the junk pile.

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There’s a new term you’ll be learning this year. It’s called Bebo. Make a note of it, because you’ll be seeing lots of it just like the terms Myspace, Friendster, LiveJournal, et al. Internet search giant Google recently announced that the top search term for 2006 was “Bebo”. But what the heck is Bebo anyway?

Bebo is the next generation social networking site where members can stay in touch with their College friends, connect with friends, share photos, discover new interests and just hang out.

From previous experience, the people who work at Bebo have learned a lot about what makes social networks fun, and believe that with Bebo they’ve taken social networking to the next level.

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So here’s an eBay auction. The ad clearly states it’s for a “Sony Playstation 3 - Controller”. The description states it’s a Game Controller. There is even a picture that is captioned “Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Controller”. The only deceiving part of this auction, if you can even call it deceiving is the actual product picture. One that portrays a PS3 box, a couple games and two controllers in a bundle type setting. I suppose if your desperate enough, one might misunderstand this ad to be for the picture and not what’s described in the auction title and description.

So who is desperate enough to pay $485 for a PS3 controller. That would be the same eBayer that recently paid $100 to win this auction, “Sony PlayStation 3 - Game console Mystery Auction” where it also clearly states:

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So how many people got up Christmas morning to find brand new HDTV’s waiting for them? If your like many out there, you rose to find the jolly ole fat man left you with a nice surprise and ushered your living room into the digital era, leaving you an LCD, Plasma, DLP or some other form of digital television. If your like many of those people, you found out Santa has a jolly ole sense of humor. After rushing the kids through opening packages, racing to make the rounds to various family, scarfing down dried up turkey and fixings, you head off to the living room to embark on this adventure so many of your coworkers brag about experiencing. Only to find hours later, your old television set looked better.

In previous years, whenever we got a new television it was a simple thing to plug them in and turn them on. At most you had to adjust the antenna or maybe wait for the cable company to come by but there was very little effort on your part. That’s no longer true. No longer can you simply plug the set in an expect it to work, now you have to have HD service to go along with that HD set.

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