I am so happy right now my PS3 is back in it's rightful place currently downloading the recent update and I can finally get back to the task of serious gaming!!!! Not much else to say right now I just had to post this blog On the other hand though the repair was damn fast, they got it Monday morning, dispatched it yesterday and now back here. Sony FTW!

The time has come once again when upgrading another part of my PC has become possible, after buying my new PC a few months ago my video capture box simply isn't good enough compared to the rest of the PC. Ontop of that it really doesn't like Vista too much at all but then again it was only a cheap one I found on Ebay. It has done the job for quite a while and my videos can be found on my YouTube page Here!

I am thinking about getting a Dazzle Video Creator Platinum which cuts out all of the TV tuner stuff which I dont need or use and is dedicated to recording and displaying only composite RCA / S-Video feeds and has full hardware MPEG 1/2/4 compression so I wont get poor quality or lose frames because the PC is getting bogged down by the huge data files that capturing makes. Also for those who don't know yet you can get the Dazzle to function perfectly on Vista but ONLY 32-Bit, 64-Bit at the moment will only accept HD capture cards so be careful if your looking for one yourself.

Just over 1 year of faithful service and one week after my warrenty expires my PS3 finally decides to break. Thankfully the wonderful people at Sony UK have taken away my black box and are repairing it for free anyway which is pretty awesome. The issue is an easy fix the Blu-Ray laser in my drive has decided it doesn't like to fire anymore and it needs replacing and when I take into consideration that I use my PS3 daily and also that by this timeframe when I was using my Xbox 360 alot I was on my 3rd one! Then in the big picture it's really not that bad at all.

I just hope they get it back to me a damn sight faster than Microsoft did, they have told me it will be no longer than 10 working days but also to expect it back way before that time as the fix is quick. So fingers crossed here

After 6 years of faithful use my old Intel 2.66GHZ PC has finally begun to show signs of age and a major loss of performance. Well in truth it's more a case of smoke blowing out of the case as the motherboard dies. So yesterday I ordered a new PC which will be here Thursday and it's a nice spec too. It needs some upgrading out the box but only the graphics card and PSU really.

Processor Type Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 |

Clock-Speed 2.4 Ghz / 9.6Ghz Total |

Front Side BUS 1066MHz |

Cache 8 MB |

Operating-System Windows Vista (R) Home Premium |

RAM Memory 3072 MB |

Hard Disk Capacity 320 GB |

Optical Drive 1 Multi-Format Dual Layer DVD Re-Writer |

Graphics Memory 256mb MB |

Graphics Description nVidia GeForce 7050 |

Sound Card Onboard |

Media Card Reader 8-In-1 |

No of USB connections 6 |

No. of Firewire Connections 1 |

I will be replacing the onboard GeForce 7050 with a PCI-E GeForce 8600GT shortly after it arrives and upgrading the PSU to 600W just to make sure it can handle all I can throw at it. Then I can finally play Crysis and Age Of Conan without uber lag and slowdown

I have now got a USB video capture device for use with my PS3 and 360 and I have started to make videos and upload them onto my YouTube page. For anyone who is interested the link is

www.youtube.com/shadow106