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PCWorld's Top 10 Most overrrated products

According to PC World Streaming Video services are overrrated and Blu Ray is underrrated

"Streaming video gets all the buzz: Netflix via Roku or Vudu! Hulu, YouTube and the Beijing Olympics via PC!

But we haven't seen streaming video im­­ages as impressive as those on Blu-ray Disc (and Blu-ray audio rocks, too). The detail, clarity and depth of Blu-ray trump the lower-bit-rate product that streaming video offers every time. That's not to say that streaming isn't convenient: You just click and go, with no packaging to fuss with and no disc to load. But with Blu-ray (the successor to the DVD), you don't have to worry about broadband-network data caps or hiccups in the service.
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MAR-TYR-DOM5693d ago

Overrated Windows XP Underrated Vista? gimme a break!
And anyone who is going to reply to my comment dont say "have a kit kat"

Parapraxis5693d ago

Vista is fine after a little tweaking. It actually took me far less time to control than XP.
XP has to be tweaked in order to be acceptable as well. Each OS needs a little work in different ways, but Vista gets a lot of negativity and it's usually unfounded. If you can't figure out how to turn of UAC then you are going to have just as many (if not more) problems with XP.

Internet Trolling Ex5693d ago

Dont worry,they will include Halo 3 in the next edition

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ActualWhiteMan21h ago

And double your energy bills 💩

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It's good SLI is dead and buried - and my wallet agrees

Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."

darthv725d ago

Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.

Vits5d ago

I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.

However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.

Wretchedstain5d ago

I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.

shaenoide5d ago

Why ? For the price of two SLI cards you only get one RqtX card now...

OpenGL5d ago

Exactly what I was thinking. When SLI was around an Nvidia flagship card was $700, less than half the price of their current flagship.

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